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UNDEBGLIMPSES, 

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By the same Author. 



Uniform with this Volume, 

THE BELL-FOUNDER, 

§jmir ot\tx poems. 

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Also, recently Published, in 2 volumes, Fcap. Svo. 

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UNDERGLIMPSES, 



#%r f o*ms. 



D. FLORENCE MAC CARTHY, M.R.I.A., 

AUTHOR OF " BALLADS, POEMS, AND LYRICS," 
ETC. ETC. 



LONDON: 

DAVID BOGUE, ELEET-STKEET. 

1857. 






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W. L. Shoemai«r 
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CONTENTS 



UNDERGLIMPSES. 



Page. 

The Arraying of May, . 1 

The Search for May, 7 

The Tidings, 12 

Welcome May, 17 

The Meeting of the Flowers, 21 

The Progress of the Rose, 38 

The Bath otf the Streams, 51 

The Flowers of the Tropics, 60 

The Spirit of the Snow, 64 

The Year-King, 73 

The Awaking, 85 

The Resurrection, . 89 

The First of the Angels, 93 

Spirit Voices, 97 

The Bridal of the Year, 103 



CONTEXTS. 



MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 



Page. 

The Spirit of the Ideal, , 119 

Recollections, 129 

Moore, an Elegl^c Ode, 138 

Ode on the Death of the Earl of Belfast, .... 145 

Dolores, 160 

Eclipse, 162 

Truth in Song, 163 

Lost and Found, 165 

Home- Sickness, 170 

Youth and Age, 174 

To June, ,\ 175 

Sunny Days in Winter, 179 

The Birth of the Spring, 182 

All Fools' Day', 187 

January, 193 

To Mary, 197 

Sonnet — " Two golden links are added to the Chain," . 200 

Sonnet — " Happy 'twill be upon some future day," . . 201 

Duty, 202 

Order, 203 

Xotes, 205 



U N D ERG LIMPS ES. 



UNDEEGLIMPSES. 



THE AKBAYING OP MAY. 



1. 
The blue-eyed maidens of the sea 
With trembling haste approach the lee, 
So small and smooth, they seem to be 
^ot waves, bnt children of the waves ; 
And as each linked circle laves 
The crescent marge of creek and bay, 
Their mingled voices all repeat — 

lovely May ! long'd-for May ! 
"We come to bathe thy snow-white feet. 

B 



THE AKKAYI^G OF 3IAY, 

2. 

We bring thee treasures rich and rare, 
White pearls to deck thy golden hair, 
And coral-beads, so smoothly fair 
And free from every flaw or speck, 
That they may lie upon thy neck, 
This sweetest day — this brightest day 
That ever on the green world shone — 

lovely Hay ! long'd-for May ! 
As if thy neck and they were one. 

3. 

"We bring thee from our distant home 
Robes of the pure white- woven foam, 
And many a pure, transparent comb, 
Porm'd of the shell the tortoise plaits, 
By EabelmandePs coral-straits ; 
And amber vases, with inlay 
Of roseate pearl time never dims — 

lovely May ! long'd-for May ! 
Wherein to lave thine ivorv limbs. 



THE AERATING OF MAY. 
4. 

We bring, as sandals for thy feet, 
Beam-broidered waves, like those that greet, 
With green and golden chrysolite, 
The setting sun's departing beams, 
When all the western water seems 
Like emeralds melted by his ray, 
So softly bright, so gently warm — 

lovely May ! long'd-for May ! 
That thou canst trust thy tender form. 

5. 

And lo i the ladies of the hill, 

The rippling stream, and sparkling rill, 

With rival speed, and like good will, 

Come, bearing down the mountain's side 

The liquid crystals of the tide, 

In vitreous vessels, clear as they, 

And cry, from each worn, winding path — 

lovely Hay ! long'd-for May ! 
We come to lead thee to the bath. 
b2 



THE ARKAYIM OF MAY. 
6. 

And we have fashioned, for thy sake, 

Mirrors more bright than art could make — 

The silvery- sheeted mountain lake 

Hangs in its carved frame of rocks, 

Wherein to dress thy dripping locks, 

Or bind the dewy curls that stray 

Thy trembling breast meandering down — 

lovely May ! long'd-for May ! 
"Within their own self- woven crown. 

Arise, May ! arise and see 

Thine emerald robes are held for thee 

By many a hundred-handed tree, 

Who lift from all the fields around 

The verdurous velvet from the ground, 

And then the spotless vestments lay, 

Smooth-folded o'er their outstretch' d arms — 

lovely May ! long'd-for May ! 
Wherein to fold thy virgin charms. 



THE AEBAYING OF MAY. O 

8. 
Thy robes are stiff with golden bees, 
Dotted with gems more bright than these, 
And scented by each performed breeze 
That, blown from Heaven's re-open' d bowers, 
Become the souls of new-born flowers — 
Who thus their sacred birth betray ; 
Heavenly thou art, nor less should be — 

lovely May ! long'd-for May ! 
The favour' d forms that wait on thee. 

9. 

The moss to guard thy feet is spread, 

The wreaths are woven for thy head, 

The rosy curtains of thy bed 

Become transparent in the blaze 

Of the strong sun's resistless gaze ; 

Then, lady, make no more delay, 

The world still lives, though Spring be dead — 

lovely May ! long'd-for May ! 
And thou must rule and reign instead. 



THE AEEAYIX& OF MAY. 
10. 

The lady from, her bed arose, 

Her bed the leaves the moss-bud blows, 

Herself a lily in that rose ; 

The maidens of the streams and sands 

Bathe some her feet, and some her hands ; 

And some the emerald robes display ; 

Her dewy locks were then np curled, 

And lovely May— the long'd-for May — 
Was crown' d the Queen of all the World ! 



1853. 



THE SEAECH FOE MAY. 



1. 

Let us seek the modest May, 
She is down in the glen 
Hiding 
And abiding 
Erom the common gaze of men. 
Where the silver streamlet crosses 
O'er the smooth stones green with mosses, 
And glancing 
And dancing, 
Goes singing on its way — 
We will find the modest maiden there to-day. 



THE SEARCH FOE MAT. 

2. 

Let us seek the merry May, 
She is up on the hill, 
Laughing, 
And quaffing 
Prom the fountain and the rill. 
Where the southern zephyr sprinkles, 
Like bright smiles on age's tinkles, 
O'er the edges 
And ledges 
Of the rocks, the wild flowers gay — 
"We will find the merry maiden there to-day. 

3. 

Let us seek the musing May, 
She is deep in the wood, 
Viewing 
And pursuing 
The beautiful and good. 
"Where the grassy bank receding. 
Spreads its quiet couch for reading 



THE SEAECH EOE MAY. b) 

The pages 
Of the sages, 
And the poet's lyric lay — 
We will find the musing maiden there to-day. 

4. 

Let us seek the mirthful May, 
She is out on the strand 
Eacing 
' And chasing 
The ripples o'er the sand. 
Where the warming waves discover 
All the treasures that they cover, • 
Whitening 
And brightening 
The pebbles for her play — 
We will find the mirthful maiden there to-day. 

5. 

Let us seek the wandering May, 
She is off to the plain, 



10 THE SEARCH FOE MAY. 

rinding 
The winding 
Of the labyrinthian lane. 
She is passing through its mazes, 
"While the hawthorn, as it gazes, 
With grief, lets 
Its leaflets 
Whiten all the way — 
We will find the wandering maiden there to-day. 

6. 

Let us seek her in the ray — 

Let us track her by the rill — 
Wending 
Ascending 
The'slopings of the hill. 
Where the robin from the copses 
Breathes a love-note, and then drops his 
Trilling, 
Till, willing, 
His mate responds his lay — 
We will find the listening maiden there to-day. 



THE SEAECH FOE MAY. 1 1 

7. 
But why seek her far away ? 

Like a young bird in its nest, 
She is warming 
And forming 
Her dwelling in our breast. 
While the heart she doth repose on, 
Like the down the sunwind blows on, 
G-loweth, 
Yet showeth 
The trembling of the ray — ■ 
"We will find the happy maiden there to-day. 



1853. 



12 



THE TIDINGS. 



1. 

A bright beam came to my window frame, 

This sweet May morn, 
And it said to the cold, hard glass — 

Oh ! let me pass, 
Por I have good news to tell, 
The queen of the dewy dell, 

The beautiful May is born ! 

2. 

Warm with the race, through the open space, 

This sweet May morn, 
Came a soft wind out of the skies ; 

And it said to my heart — Arise ! 



THE TIDINGS. 13 

Go forth from the winter's fire, 
For the child of thy long desire, 
The beautiful May, is born ! 

3. 

The bright beam glanced and the soft wind danced, 

This sweet May morn, 
Over my cheek and over my eyes'; 

And I said with a glad surprise — 
Oh, lead me forth, ye blessed twain, 
Over the hill and over the plain, 

Where the beautiful May is born. 

4. 
Through the open door leaped the beam before. 

This sweet May morn, 
And the soft wind floated along, 

Like a poet's song, 
Warm from his heart and fresh from his brain ; 
And they led me over the mount and plain, 

To the beautiful May new-born. 



14 THE TIDIXGS. 



5. 

My guide so bright and my guide so light, 

This sweet May morn, 
Led me along o'er the grassy ground, 

And I knew by each joyous sight and sound, 
The fields so green and the skies so gay, 
That heaven and earth kept holiday, 

That the beautiful May was born. 



6. 

Out of the sea with their eyes of glee, 

This sweet May morn, 
Came the blue waves hastily on ; 

And they, murmuring, cried— Thou happy one ! 
Show us, Earth ! thy darling child, 
For we heard far out on the ocean wild, 

That the beautiful May was born. 



THE TIDIXGS. 15 

7. 

The winged flame to the rose-bud came, 

This sweet May morn, 
And it said to the flower — Prepare ! 

Lay thy nectarine bosom bare ; 
Full soon, full soon, thou must rock to rest, 
And nurse and feed on thy glowing breast, 

The beautiful May now born. 

8. 

The gladsome breeze through the trembling trees, 

This sweet May morn, 
"Went joyously on from bough to bough ; 

And it said to the red-branched plum — thou ! 
Cover with mimic pearls and gems, 
And with silver bells, thy coral stems, 

For the beautiful May now born. 



16 THE TIDINGS. 

9. 

Under the eaves and through the leaves, 

This sweet May morn, 
The soft wind whispering new : 

And it said to the listening birds — you, 
Sweet choristers of the skies, 
Awaken your tenderest lullabies, 

For the beautiful May now born. 

10. 

The white cloud new to the uttermost blue, 

This sweet May mom, 
It bore, like a gentle carrier-dove, 

The blessed news to the realms above ; 
While its sister coo'd in the midst of the grove, 
And within my heart the spirit of love, 

That the beautiful May was born ! 

1853. 



17 



WELCOME MAY. 



1. 
Welcoiso: May ! welcome May ! 
Thou hast been too long away, 

All the widow' d wintry hours 
Wept for thee, gentle May ; 

But the fault was only ours— 
We were sad when thou wert gay ! 

2. 

Welcome May ! welcome May ! 
We are wiser far to-day — 

Fonder, too, than we were then. 
Gentle May ! joyous May ! 

!Now that thou art come again, 
We perchance may make thee stay ! 



18 WELC03TE MAY, 

3. 

Welcome May ! welcome May ! 

Everything kept holiday 

Save the human heart alone. 

Mirthful May ! gladsome May ! 

We had cares and thou hadst none 

When thou earnest last this way ! 

4. 
When thou earnest last this way 

Blossoms bloomed on every spray, 

Buds on barren boughs were born— 

Fertile May! fruitful May! 

Like the rose upon the thorn 

Cannot grief awhile be gay ? 

5, 
7 Tis not for the golden ray, 

Or the flowers that strew thy way, 
0, immortal One ! thou art 

Here, to-day, gentle May — 

'Tis to man's ungrateful heart 

That thy fairy footsteps stray. 



i 



WELCOME MAY. 19 

6. 

"Tis to give that living clay 
Flowers that ne'er can fade away — 

Pond remembrances of bliss ; 
And a foretaste, mystic May, 

Of the life that follows this, 
Full of joys that last alway! 

7. 
Other months are cold and gray, 

Some are bright, but what are they ? 

Earth may take the whole eleven — 
Hopeful May — happy May ! 

Thine the borrowed month of Heaven 
Cometh thence and points the way. 

8. 
Winged minstrels come and play 

Through the woods their roundelay ; 

Who can tell, but only thou 
Spirit -ear'd, inspired May, 

On the bud-embow'recl bough 
What the happy lyrists say ? 
c 2 



20 WELCOME MAY. 

9. 

Is the burden of their lay- 
Love' s desire, or Lore's decay? 

Are there not some fond regrets 
Mix'd with these, divinest May, 

For the sun that never sets 
Down the everlasting day ? 

10. 
But upon thy wondrous way 
Mirth alone should dance and play — 

No regrets how fond they be 
E'er should wound the ear of May — 

Bow before her, flower and tree ! 
Nor, my heart, do thou delay. 

1853. 



21 



THE MEETING OE THE ELOWEKS. 



1. 

These is within this world of ours 

Eull many a happy home and hearth ; 
What time, the Saviour's blessed birth 

Makes glad the gloom of wintry hours. 

2. 

When back from severed shore from shore, 
And over seas that vainly part, 
The scattered embers of the heart 

Glow round the parent hearth once more. 



22 THE MEETING OF THE FLO WEES. 

3. 

When those, who now are anxious men, 
Forget their growing years and cares : 
Forget the time-flakes on their hairs, 

And laugh, light-hearted boys again. 

4. 
"When those who now are wedded wives, 

By children of their own embraced, 

Eecall their early joys, and taste 

Anew the childhood of their lives. 

5. 

And the old people — the good sire 

And kindly parent-mother — glow 
To feel their children's children throw 
Fresh warmth around the Christmas fire. 

6. 
When in the sweet colloquial din, 

Unheard the sullen sleet-winds shout ; 

And though the winter rage without, 

The social summer reigns within. 



THE MEETING OE THE FLOWERS. 23 

7. 
But in this wondrous world of ours 

Are other circling kindred chords — 

Binding poor harmless beasts and birds ; 

And the fair family of flowers. 

8. 

That family that meet to-day 

Prom many a foreign field and glen — 
For what is Christmas-tide with men 

Is with the flowers the time of May. 

9. 
Back to the meadows of the "West, 

Back to their natal fields they come ; 

And as they reach their wished-for home, 

The Mother folds them to her breast. 

10. 

And as she breathes, with balmy sighs, 

A fervent blessing over them, 
The tearful, glistening dews begem 
The parents' and the children's eyes. 



24 THE MEETING OF THE FLO WEES. 

11, 

She spreads a carpet for their feet, 

And mossy pillows for their heads, 
. And curtains-round their fairy beds 
With blossom-broidered branches sweet ; 

12. 

She feeds them with ambrosial food, 

And fills their cups with nectared wine ; 
And all her choristers combine 
To sing their welcome from the wood : 

13. 

And all that love can do is done, 

As shown to them in countless ways ; 
She kindles to a brighter blaze 
The fireside of the world, — the Sun : 

14. 
And with her own soft, trembling hands, 

In many a calm and cool retreat, 

She laves the dust that soils their fee 

In coming from the distant lands ; 



THE MEETING OF THE FLO WEES. 25 

15. 

Or, leading down some sinuous path, 

Where the shy stream's encircling heights 
Shut out all prying eyes, invites 

Her Lily daughters to the bath. 

16. 
There, with a mother's harmless pride, 

Admires them sport the waves among : 

Now lay their ivory limbs along 

The buoyant bosom of the tide — 

17. 

Now lift their marble shoulders o'er 

The rippling glass, or sink with fear, 

As if the wind approaching near 

Were some wild wooer from the shore ; 

8. 
Or else the parent turns to these, 

The younglings born beneath her eye, 

And hangs the baby-buds close by, 

In wind-rocked cradles, from the trees. 



26 THE MEETING OF THE FLOWEES. 

19. 

And as the branches fall and rise, 

Each leafy-folded swathe expands : 
And now are spread their tiny hands, 

And now are seen their starry eyes. 

20. 

But soon the feast concludes the day, 

And yonder in the sun-warmed dell, 
The happy circle meet to tell 
Their labours since the bygone May : 

21. 

A bright-faced youth is first to raise 

His cheerful voice above the rest, 
Who bears upon his hardy breast 
A golden star with silver rays : 

22. 

Worthily won — for he had been 

A traveller in many a land, 
And with his slender staff in hand 
Had wandered over many a green : 



THE MEETING OE THE ELOWEES. 27 

23. 

Had seen trie Shepherd Sun unpen 

Heaven's fleecy flocks, and let them stray 
Over the high-peaked Himalay, 

Till Mght shut up the fold again : 

24. 
Had sat upon a mossy ledge, 

O'er Baiae in the morning's beams, 

Or where the sulphurous crater steams — 

Had hung suspended from the edge. 

25. 

Or following its devious course 

Up many a weary winding mile, 
Had tracked the long, mysterious !N"ile 
Even to its now no -fabled source : 

26. 
Eesting, perchance, as on he strode, 

To see the herded camels pass 

Upon the strips of wayside grass 

That line with green the dust- white road. 



28 THE MEETEBTG OF THE ELOWEES. 

27. 

Had often closed his weary lids 

In green oases of the waste, 
Or in the mighty shadows traced 
By the eternal pyramids. 

28. 
Had slept within an Arab's tent 

Pitched for the night beneath a palm, 

Or when was heard the vesper psalm 

"With the pale mm in worship bent : 

29. 

Or on the moonlit fields of France, 

"When happy Tillage maidens trod 
Lightly the fresh and verdurous sod, 
There was he seen amid the dance : 

30. 
Yielding with sympathizing stem 

To the quick feet that round him flew, 

Sprang from the ground as they would do, 

Or sank unto the earth with them : 



THE MEETING OF THE ELOWEKS. 29 

31. 

Or, childlike, played with girl and boy, 

Ey many a river's bank, and gave 
His floating body to the wave 
Full many a time to give them joy. 

32. 
These and a thousand other tales 

The traveller told, and welcome found ; 

These were the simple tales went round 

The happy circles in the vales : 

33. 

Keeping reserved with conscious pride 

His noblest act, his crowning feat, 
How he had led even Humboldt's feet 
Up Chimborazo's mighty side. 

34. 

Guiding him through the trackless snow, 
By sheltered clefts of living soil, 
Sweet'ning the fearless traveller's toil, 

With memories of the world below. 



30 THE 3IEETEXG OF THE FLOWERS. 

35. 

Such was the hardy Daisy's tale, 

And then the maidens of the group — 
Lilies, whose languid heads down droop 
Over their pearl-white shoulders pale — 

36. 

Told, when the genial glow of June 

Had passed, they sought still warmer climes, 
And took beneath the verdurous limes 
Their sweet siesta through the noon : 

37. 

And seeking still, with fond pursuit, 

The phantom Health, which lures and wiles 
Its followers, to the shores and isles 
Of amber waves, and golden fruit, 

38. 
There they had seen the orange grove 

Enwreath its gold with buds of white, 

As if themselves had taken flight, 

And settled on the boughs above. 



THE MEETING OF THE FLOWERS. 31 

39. 

There kiss'd by every rosy mouth, 

And press' d to every gentle breast, 
These pallid daughters of the West 

Eeigned in the sunshine of the South. 

40. 
And thoughtful of the things divine, 

Were oft by many an altar found, 

Standing like white-robed angels round 

The precincts of some sacred shrine. 

41. 

And Yiolets, with dark-blue eyes, 

Told how they spent the winter time, 
In Andalusia's Eden clime, 
Or 'neath Italia' s kindred skies. 

42. 

Chiefly when evening's golden gloom 

Yeil'd Eome's serenest ether soft, 
Bending in thoughtful musings oft, 
Above the lost Alastor's tomb( 1 ) — 



32 THE itfEETIjS'G OF THE FLO WEES. 

43. 

Or the twin-poet's ; he who sings 

" A thing of beauty never dies"( 2 ), 
Paying them back, in fragrant sighs, 

The love they bore all loveliest things. 

44. 
The flower, whose bronzed cheek recalls 

The incessant beat of wind and sun, 

Spoke of the lore his search had won 

Upon Pompeii's rescued walls. 

45. 
How, in his antiquarian march, 

He crossed the tomb-strewn plain of Eome, 

Sat on some prostrate plinth, or clomb 

The Coliseum's topmost arch. 

46. 
And thence beheld, in glad amaze 

What Nero's guilty eyes, aloof, 

Drank in, from off his golden roof — 

The sun-biight city all a-blaze : 



THE MEETING OF THE FLO WEES. 33 

47 
A -blaze by day with, solar fires — 

A-blaze by night, with lunar beams, 

With lambent lustre on its streams. 

And golden glories round its spires ! 

48. 
Thence he beheld that wondrous dome, 

That, rising o'er the radiant town, 

Circles, with Art's eternal crown, 

The still imperial brow of Rome. 

49. 
Nor was the Marigold remiss, 

But told, how in her crown of gold 

She sat, like Persia's King of old, 

High o'er the shores of Salamis: 

50. 
And saw, against the morning sky, 

The white-sailed fleets their wings display; 

And, ere the tranquil close of day, 

Fade, like the Persian's, from her eye. — 



34 THE MEETING OF THE FLOWERS. 

51. 

Fleets, with their white flags all unfurl' cl, 

Inscribed with "Commerce," and with "Peace/' 
Bearing no threatened ill to Greece, 
But mutual good to all the world. 

52. 

And various other flowers were seen, 

Cowslip and Oxlip, and the tall 
Tulip, whose grateful hearts recall 
The winter homes where they had been. 

53. 

Some in the sunny vales, beneath 

The sheltering hills ; and some, whose eyes 
"Were gladdened by the southern skies, 
High up amid the blooming heath. — 

54. 
Meek, modes flowers, by poets loved, 

Sweet Pansies, with their dark eyes fringed 

With silken lashes finely tinged, 
That trembled if a leaf but moved : 



THE MEETING OF THE ELOWEKS. 35 

55. 

And some in gardens, where the grass 

Mossed o'er the green quadrangle's breast, 
There dwelt each flower, a welcome guest. 

In crystal palaces of glass : 

56, 
Shown as a beauteous wonder there, 

By beauty's hands to beauty's eyes, 

Breathing what mimic art supplies, 

The genial glow of sun- warm air. 

57. 
3sTor were the absent ones forgot, 

Those whom a thousand cares detained, 

Those whom the links of duty chained 

Awhile from this, their natal spot. 

58. 
One, who in labour's useful tracks 

Is proudly eminent, who roams 

The providence of humble homes — 

The blue-eyed, fair-haired, friendly Flax : 



36 THE MEETING OF THE FLO WEES. 

59. 

Giving himself to cheer and light 

The cottier's else o'ershadowing murk — 
Filling his hand with cheerful work, 

And all his being with delight : 

60. 
And one, the loveliest and the last, 

For whom they waited day by day, 

All through the merry month of May, 

Till one and thirty days had passed. 

61. 

And when, at length, the longed-for noon 

Of night arched o'er th' expectant green — 
The Eose, their sister and their queen — 
Came on the joyous wings of June : 

62. 
And when was heard the gladsome sound, 

And when was breath' d herbeauteous name, 

Unnumbered buds, like lamps of flame, 

Gleamed from the hedges all around : 



THE MEETING OF THE FLOWERS. 
63. 

Where she had been, the distant clime, 
The orient realm her sceptre sways, 
The poet's pen may paint and praise 

Hereafter in his simple rhyme. 



1852. 



38 



THE PEOGEESS OF THE EOSE. 



1. 

The days of old — the good old days, 

Whose misty memories haunt tis still- 
Demand alike our blame and praise, 
And claim their share of good and ill. 

2. 
They had strong faith in things unseen, 

Eut stronger in the things they saw ; 
Eevenge for Mercy's pitying mien, 

And lordly Eight for equal Law. 



THE PEOGEESS OF THE EOSE. 39 

3. 

■ Tis true, the cloisters, all throughout 

The valleys, rais'd their peaceful towers. 
And their sweet bells ne'er wearied out 
In telling of the tranquil hours. 

4. 
But from the craggy hills above, 

A shadow darken' d o'er the sward ; 

For there — a vulture to this dove — 

Hang the rude fortress of the lord ; 

5. 

Whence oft the ravening bird of prey 

Descending, to his eyrie wild, 
Bore, with exulting cries, away 

The powerless serf's dishonour' d child. 

6, 
Then Safety lit with partial beams 

But the high-castled peaks of Force, 

And Polity revers'd its streams, 

And bade them flow but for their Source,— 



40 THE PROGRESS OE THE ROSE. 

7. 
That Source from which, meandering down, 

A thousand streamlets circle now ; 

For then the monarch's glorious crown 

But girt the most rapacious brow. 

8. 
But individual Force is dead, 

And link'd Opinion late takes birth ; 
And now a Woman's gentle head 

Supports the mightiest crown on earth : 

9. 

A pleasing type of all the change 

Permitted to our eyes to see, 
When she herself is free to range 

Throughout the realm her rule makes free ; 

10. 
]Not prison'* d in a golden cage, 

To sigh or sing her lonely state — 

A show for youth or doating age 

With idiot eyes to contemplate. 



THE PROGRESS OE THE ROSE. 41 

11. 

But when the season sends a thrill 
To ev'ry heart that lives and moves, 

She seeks the freedom of the hill, 
Or shelter of the noontide groves ; 

12. 
There, happy with her chosen mate, 

And circled hy her chirping brood, 

Forgets the pain of being great 

In the mere bliss of being good. 

13. 
And thus the festive summer yields 

BTo sight more happy, none so gay, 

As when amid her subject-fields 

She wanders on from day to day. 

14. 
Resembling her, whom proud and fond 

The bard hath sung of — she of old, 

Who bore upon her snow-white wand, 

All Erin through, the ring of gold. 



42 THE PROGRESS OF THE ROSE. 

15. 
Thus, from her castles coming forth, 

She wanders many a summer hour, 
Bearing the ring of private worth 

Upon the silver wand of Power. 

16, 
Thus musing, while around me new 

Sweet airs from Fancy's amaranth bowers, 
Methought, what this fair Queen doth do, 
Hath yearly done, the Queen of Flowers. 

17. 
The beauteous Queen of all the flowers, 

Whose faintest sigh is like a spell, 

Was born in Eden's sinless bowers, 

Long ere our primal parents fell. 

18. 
There, in a perfect form, she grew, 

ISor felt decay, nor tasted death ; 
Heaven was reflected in her hue, 

And Heaven's own odours filled her breath. 



THE PHOGKESS OE THE EOSE. 43 

19. 

And ere the Angel of the Sword 

Drove thence the founders of our race, 

They knelt before him, and implor'd 
Some relic of that radiant place, — 

20. 

Some relic that, while time would last, 
Should make men weep their fatal sin — ■ 

Proof of the glory that was past, 

And type of that they yet might win. 

21. 
The Angel turn'd; and ere his hands 

The gates of bliss for ever close, 

Pluck' d from the fairest tree that stands 

Within Heaven's walls — the peerless Eose ; 

22. 

And as he gave it unto them, 

Let fall a tear upon its leaves — 
The same celestial liquid gem 
We oft perceive on dewy eves. 



44 THE PROGRESS OE THE ROSE. 

23. 

Grateful, the hapless twain went forth — 

The golden portals backward whirr d — 
Then first they felt the biting north, 
And all the rigour of this world ; 

24. 

Then first the dreadful curse had power 

To chill the life-streams at their source, 
Till e'en the sap within the flower 
Grew curdled in its upward course. 

25. 

They twin'd their trembling hands across 

Their trembling breasts against the drift, 
Then sought some little mound of moss, 
Wherein to lay their precious gift, — 

26. 

Some little soft and mossy mound, 

Wherein the flower might rest till morn ; 

In vain ! God's curse was on the ground, 
For through the moss outgleam'd the thorn ! 



THE PEOGEESS OP THE EOSE. 45 

27. 

Outgleam'd the forked plant, as if 
The serpent Tempter, in his rage, 

Had put his tongue in every leaf 
To mock them through their pilgrimage. 

28. 
They did their best; their hands eras' d 

The thorns of greater strength and size ; 

Then 'mid the softer moss they plac'd 

The exiled flower of Paradise. 

29. 
The plant took root ; the beams and showers 

Came kindly, and its fair head rear'd; 

But lo ! around its heaven of flowers 

The thorns and moss of earth appear' d. 

30. 
Type of the greater change that then 

Upon our hapless nature fell, 

"When the degenerate hearts of men 

Bore sin and all the thorns of hell. 



46 THE PROGRESS OF THE ROSE. 

31. 
Happy, indeed, and sweet our pain, 

However torn, however tost, 

If, like the Rose, our hearts retain 

Some vestige of the Heaven we've lost. 

32. 

Where she upon this colder sphere 

Pound shelter first, she there abode ; 
Her native bowers, unseen, were near, 
And near her still Euphrates now'd — 

33. 

Brilliantly now'd; but ah! how dim, 
Compar'd to what its light had been ; — - 

As if the fiery Cherubim 

Let pass the tide, but kept its sheen. 

34. 
At first she liv'd and reign' d alone, 

No lily-maidens yet had birth ; 

No turban' d tulips round her throne 

Bow'd with their foreheads to the earth. 



THE PEOOEESS OF THE EOSE. 47 

35. 

"No rival sisters had she yet — 

She with the snowy forehead fringed 

"With brushes ; nor the sweet brunette 
Whose cheek the yellow sun has ting'd. 

36. 
Not all the harbingers of May, 

Nov all the clustering joys of June ; 

Uncarpeted the bare earth lay, 

Unhung the branches' gay festoon. 

37. 

Eut Nature came in kindly mood, 

And gave her kindred of her own ; 
Knowing full well it is not good 
Eor man or flower to be alone. 

38. 
Long in her happy court she dwelt, 

In floral games and feasts of mirth, 

Until her heart kind wishes felt 

To share her joy with all the earth. 



48 THE PEOGEESS OE THE EOSE. 

39. 

To go from longing land to land 

A stateless queen — a welcome guest — 

O'er hill and vale — by sea and strand — 
From North to South, and East to Vest 

40. 

And thus it is that every year, 

Ere Autumn dons his russet robe, 
She calls her unseen charioteer, 

And makes her progress through the globe. 

41. 
Eirst, sharing in the month-long feast — 

" The Eeast of Eoses" — in whose light 

And grateful joy, the first and least 

Of all her subjects reunite. 

42. 

She sends her heralds on before : 

The bee rings out his bugle bold, 

The daisy spreads her marbled floor, 

The buttercup her cloth of gold. 



THE PEOGEESS OE THE EOSE. 49 

43. 

The lark leaps up into the sky, 

To watch her coming from afar ; 
The larger moon descends more nigh, 

More lingering lags the morning star. 

44. 
From out the villages and towns, 

From all of mankind's mix'd abodes, 

The people, by the lawns and downs, 

Go meet her on the winding roads. 

45. 

And some would bear her in their hands, 

And some would press her to their breast, 

And some would worship where she stands, 

And some would claim her as their guest. 

46. 
Her gracious smile dispels the gloom 

Of many a love- sick girl and boy ; 

Her very presence in a room 

Doth fill the languid air with joy. 



50 THE PROGRESS OF THE ROSE.. 

47. 

Her breath, is like a fragrant tune. 
She is the soul of every spot ; 

Gives nature to the rich saloon, 
And splendour to the peasant's cot. 

48. 
Her mission is to calm and soothe, 

And purely glad life's every stage; 

Her garlands grace the brow of youth, 

And hide the hollow lines of age. 

49. 

But to the Poet she belongs, 

By immemorial ties of love ; — 
Herself a folded book of songs, 

Dropp'd from the Angel's hands above. 

50. 
Then come and make his heart thy home, 

Eor thee it opes, for thee it glows ; 

Type of ideal beauty, come ! 

Wonder of Mature ! queenly Rose ! 

1852. 



51 



THE BATH OF THE STREAMS. 



1. 

Dowx unto the ocean, 

Trembling with emotion, 
Panting at the notion, 

See the rivers run — 
In the golden weather, 
Tripping o'er the heather, 
Laughing all together — 

Madcaps every one. 

2. 
Like a troop of girls 

In their loosen' d curls, 

See, the concourse whirls 

Onward wild with glee ; 
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52 THE BATH OF THE STBEAMS. 

List their tuneful tattle, 
Hear their pretty prattle, 
How they'll love to battle 
With the assailing sea. 

3. 

See, the winds pursue them, 
See, the willows woo them, 
See, the lakelets view them 

Wistfully afar, 
With a wistful wonder 
Down the green slopes under, 
Wishing, too, to thunder 

O'er their prison bar. 

4. 
Wishing, too, to wander 
By the sea- waves yonder, 
There awhile to squander 
All their silvery stores, 



THE BATH OF THE STREAMS. 53 

There awhile forgetting 
All their vain regretting 
When their foam went fretting 
Eound the rippling shores. 

5. 

Eound the rocky region, 
Whence their prison' d legion, 
Oft and oft besieging, 

Yainly sought to break, 
Vainly sought to throw them 
O'er the vales below them, 
Through the clefts that show them 

Paths they dare not take. 

6. 

But the swift streams speed them 
In the might of freedom, 
Down the paths that lead them 
Joyously along. 



54 THE BATH OF THE STREAMS. 

Blinding green recesses 
With their floating tresses, 
Charming wildernesses 

With their murmuring song. 

7. 
Isow the streams are gliding 
With a sweet abiding — 
!N"ow the streams are hiding 

'Mid the whispering reeds — 
jSow the streams outglancing 
With a shy advancing 
JSaiad-like go dancing 

Down the golden meads. 



Down the golden meadows, 
Chasing their own shadows- 
Down the golden meadows, 
Playing as they run ; 



THE BATH OF THE STEEAMS. 55 

Playing with the sedges, 
By the water's edges, 
Leaping o'er the ledges, 
Glistening in the sun. 

9. 

Streams and streamlets blending, 
Each on each attending, 
All together wending, 

Seek the silver sands ; 
Like to sisters holding 
With a fond enfolding — 
Like to sisters holding 

One another's hands. 

10. 
Now with foreheads blushing 
With a rapturous flushing — 
Now the streams are rushing 
In among the waves. 



56 THE BATH OF THE STREAMS, 

2Tow in shy confusion, 
With a pale suffusion. 
Seek the wild seclusion 
Of sequestered caves. 

11. 

All the summer hours 
Hiding in the bowers, 
Scattering silver showers 

Out upon the strand ; 
O'er the pebbles crashing, 
Through the ripples splashing. 
Liquid pearl- wreaths dashing 

Prom each other's hand. 

12. 

By yon mossy boulder, 
See an ivory shoulder — - 
Dazzling the beholder — 
Rises o'er the blue ; 



THE BATH OF THE STKEAMS. 57 

But a moment's thinking 

Sends the Naiad sinking, 

With a modest shrinking, 

Erom the gazer's view. 

13. 
Now the wave compresses 
All their golden tresses — 
Now their sea-green dresses 

Eloat them o'er the tide ; 
Now with elf-locks dripping 
Erom the brine they're sipping, 
With a fairy tripping, 

Down the green waves glide. 

14. 

Some that scarce have tarried 
By the shore, are carried 
Sea- ward to be married 
To the glad gods there — 



58 THE BATH OP THE STEEAMS. 

Triton's horn is playing, 
Neptune's steeds are neighing, 
Eestless with delaying 
Tor a bride so fair. 

15. 
See at first the river 
How its pale lips quiver, 
How its white waves shiver 

With a fond unrest ; 
List how low it sigheth, 
See how swift it flieth, 
Till at length it lieth 

On the ocean's breast. 

16. 
Such is Youth's admiring, 
Such is Love's desiring, 
Such is Hope's aspiring 
For the higher goal ; 



THE BATH OF THE STREAMS. 59 

Such is man's condition, 

Till in heaven's fruition 

Ends the mystic mission 

Of the eternal soul. 



1855. 



60 



THE FLOWERS OE THE TROPICS. 



" C'est ainsi qu'elle a mis, entre les tropiques, la plupart des fleurs appar- 
entes sur des arbres. J'y en ai vu "bien peu dans les prairies, mais beaucoup 
dans les forets. Dans ces pays, il faut lever les yeux eu haut pour y voir 
des fleurs ; dans le notre, il faut les baisser a terre."— Saint Pierre, Etudes 
de la Nature. 



1. 

In the soft sunny regions that circle the waist 

Of the globe with a girdle of topaz and gold, 
Which heave with the throbbings of life where they're 
placed, 

And glow with the fire of the heart they enfold ; 
Where to live, where to breathe, seems a paradise 
dream — 

A dream of some world more elysian than this, — 
Where, if Death and if Sin were away, it would seem 

JSTot the foretaste alone, but the fulness of bliss. 



THE FLO WEES OE THE TEOPICS. 61 

2. 

"Where all that can gladden the sense and the sight, 

Fresh fruitage as cool and as crimson as even ; 
"Where the richness and rankness of Nature unite 

To build the frail walls of the Sybarite's heaven. 
But ah ! should the heart feel the desolate dearth 

Of some purer enjoyment to speed the bright hours, 
In vain through the leafy luxuriance of earth 

Looks the languid-lit eye for the freshness of flowers. 

3. 

No, its glance must be turned from the earth to the 

sky, 
From the clay -rooted grass to the heaven-branching 
trees ; 
And there, oh ! enchantment for soul and for eye, 

Hang blossoms so pure that an angel might seize. 
Thus, when pleasure begins from its sweetness to cloy, 
And the warm heart grows rank like a soil over ripe, 
We must turn from the earth for some promise of joy, 
And look up to Heaven for a holier type. 



62 THE PLOTTERS OF THE TEOPICS. 

4. 

In trie climes of the Xorth, which alternately shine, 

Xow warm with the sunbeam, now white with 

the snow, 
And which, like the breast of the Earth they entwine, 

Grow chill with its chillness, or glow with its glow ; 
In those climes where the soul, on more vigorous wing, 

Rises soaring to heaven in its rapturous flight, 
And, led ever on by the radiance they fling, 

Tracketh star after star through infinitude's night, 

5. 

How oft doth the seer from his watch-tower on high 

Scan the depths of the heavens with his wonderful 
glass ; 
And, like]S"oah of old, when Earth's creatures went by, 
Xame the orbs and the sun-lighted spheres as they 
pass. 
How often, when drooping, and weary, and worn, 

With fire-throbbing temples and star-dazzled eyes, 

Does he turn from his glass at the breaking of morn, 

And exchanges for flowers all the wealth of the skies? 



THE FLO WEES OF THE TEOPIGS. 63 

6. 

Ah ! thus should we mingle the far and the near, 
And, while striving to pierce what the Godhead 

conceals, 

From the far heights of Science look down with a fear 

To the lowliest truths the same Godhead reveals. 

"When the rich fruit of Joy glads the heart and the 

mouth, 

Or the bold wing of Thought leads the daring soul 

forth ; 

Let us proudly look up as for flowers of the South, 

Let us humbly look down as for flowers of the ^orth. 

1853. 



64 



THE SPIEIT OF THE SNOW. 

1. 

The night brings forth the morn — 

Of the clond is lightning horn ; 
Erom out the darkest earth the brightest roses grow. 

Bright sparks from black flints fly, 

And from out a leaden sky- 
Comes the silvery-footed Spirit of the Snow. 

2. 

The wondering air grows mute, 

As her pearly parachute 
Cometh slowly down from heaven, softly floating to 
and fro ; 

And the earth emits no sound, 

As lightly on the ground 
Leaps the silvery-footed Spirit of the Snow. 



THE SPIKIT OF THE SNOW. 65 

3. 

At the contact of her tread, 

The mountain's festal head, 
As with chaplets of white roses, seems to glow ; 

And its farrowed cheek grows white 

With a feeling of delight, 
At the presence of the Spirit of the Snow. 

4. 
As she wendeth to the vale, 

The longing fields grow pale— 
The tiny streams that vein them cease to flow ; 
And the river stays its tide 
With wonder and with pride, 
To gaze upon the Spirit of the Snow. 

o. 

But little doth she deem 

The love of field or stream — 
She is frolicsome and lightsome as the roe ; 

She is here, and she is there, 

On the earth or in the air, 
Ever changing, floats the Spirit of the Snow. 

F 



66 THE SPIRIT OF THE SNOW. 

6. 

Xow a daring climber, she 
founts the tallest forest-tee — 

Out along the giddy branches doth she go ; 
And her tassels, silver- white' 
Down swinging through the night. 

Mark the pillow of the Spirit of the Snow. 

7. 
low she climbs the mighty mast, 
When the sailor boy at last 

Dreams of home in his hammock down below; 
There she watches in his stead 
Till the morning sun shines red, 

Then evanishes the Spirit of the Snow. 

8. 
Or crowning with white fire 

The minster's topmost spire 

"With a glory such as sainted foreheads show ; 

She teaches fanes are given 

Thus to lift the heart to Heaven, 

There to melt like the Spirit of the Snow. 



THE SPIRIT OF THE SNOW, b t 

9, 

Xow above the loaded wain, 
Xow beneath the thundering train, 
Doth she hear the sweet bells tinkle and the snorting 
engine blow ; 
Xow she flutters on the breeze. 
Till the branches of the trees 
Catch the tossed and tangled tresses of the Spirit of 
the Snow. 

10, 

Xow an infant's balmy breath 
Gives the Spirit seeming death, 
When adown her pallid features fair Decay's damp 
dew-drops flow ; 
Xow again her strong assault 
Can make an army halt. 
And trench itself in terror 'gainst the Spirit of the 
Snow. 

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68 THE SPIRIT OF THE SXOW. 

11. 

At times with gentle power, 
In visiting some bower, 
She scarce will hide the holly's red, the blackness of 
the sloe ; 
But ah ! her awful might, 
When down some Alpine height 
The hapless hamlet sinks before the Spirit of the 
Snow. 

12. 
On a feather she floats down 
The turbid rivers brown, 
Down to meet the drifting navies of the winter- 
freighted floe ; 
Then swift o'er the azure walls 
Of the awful waterfalls, 
"Where Niagara leaps roaring, glides the Spirit of the 
Snow. 



THE SPIRIT OF THE SXOW. 69 

13. 

With her flag of truce unfiiiied, 
She makes peace o'er all the world — 
Makes bloody battles cease awhile, and "War's un- 
pitying woe ; 
Till, its hollow womb within, 
The deep dark-mouthed culverin 
Encloses, like a cradled child, the Spirit of the 
Snow. 



14. 

She uses in her need 
The fleetly-flying steed — 
IS'ow tries the rapid reindeer's strength, and now the 
camel slow ; 
Or, ere denied by earth, 
Unto her place of birth, 
Eeturns upon the eagle's wing the Spirit of the 
Snow. 



70 THE SPIRIT OF THE SXOW. 

15. 

Oft with pallid figure bowed. 
Like the Banshee in her shroud, 
Doth the moon her spectral shadow o'er some silent 
gravestone throw ; 
Then moans the fitful wail, 
And the wanderer grows pale, 
Till at morning fades the phantom of the Spirit of 
the Snow. 

16. 

In her ermine cloak of state 
She sitteth at the gate 
Of some winter-prisoned princess in her palace by 
the Po ; 
"Who dares not to come forth 
Till back unto the Xorth 
Plies the beautiful besieger — the Spirit of the 
Snow. 



THE SPIRIT OF THE SNOW. 71 

17. 

In her spotless linen hood, 
Like the other sisterhood, 
She craves the open cloister when the psalm sounds 
sweet and low ; 
When some sister's bier doth pass 
From the minster and the mass, 
Soon to sink into the earth, like the Spirit of the 
Snow. 

18. 
But at times so full of joy, 

She will play with girl and boy, 
Fly from out their tingling fingers, like white fire- 
balls on the foe ; 
She will burst in feathery flakes, 
And the ruin that she makes 
Will but wake the crackling laughter of the Spirit 
of the Snow. 



J 4 THE SPIEIT OF THE SXOW. 

19. 
Or in furry mantle drest, 
She will fondle on her breast 
The embryo buds awaiting the near Spring's mys- 
terious throe ; 
So fondly that the first 
Of the blossoms that outburst 
Will be called the beauteous daughter of the Spirit 
of the Snow. 

20. 
Ah ! would that we were sure 

Of hearts so warmly pure, 

In all the Winter weather that this lesser life must 

know; 

That when shines the Sun of Love 

From a warmer realm above, 

In its light we may dissolve, like the Spirit of the 

Snow. 

1853. 



73 



THE YEAR-IQXG. 



1. 
It is the last of all the days, 
The day on which the Old Year dies. 
Ah ! yes, the fated hour is near ; 
I see upon his snow-white bier 
Outstretched the weary wanderer lies, 
And mark his dying gaze. 

2. 

A thousand visions dark and fair, 

Crowd on the old man's fading sight ; 

A thousand mingled memories throng 

The old man's heart, still green and strong ; 

The heritage of wrong and right 

He leaves unto his heir. 



74 THE YEAE-XIXG. 

3. 

He thinks upon his budding hopes, 

The day he stood the world's young king, 
Upon his coronation mom, 
When diamonds hung on every thorn, 
And peeped the pearl flowers of the spring 
Adown the emerald slopes. 

4. 
He thinks upon his youthful pride, 

^When in his ermined cloak of snow, 

Upon his war-horse, stout and staunch, — 

The cataract-crested avalanche, — 

He thundered on the rocks below, 

With his warriors at his side. 

5. 
Prom rock to rock, through cloven scalp( 3 ), 

By rivers rushing to the sea, 

With thunderous sound his army wound 

The heaven supporting hills around ; 

Like that the Man of Destiny 

Led down the astonished Alp. 



THE YEAE-KLXG. 
6. 

The bugles of the blast rang out, 
The banners of the lightning swung, 
The icy spear-points of the pine 
Bristled along the advancing line, 
And as the winds' reveille rung, 
Heavens ! how the hills did shout. 

7. 
Adown each slippery precipice 

Battled the loosen' d rocks, like balls 

Shot from his booming thunder guns, 

Whose smoke, effacing stars and suns, 

Darkens the stifled heaven, and falls 

Far off in arrowy showers of ice. 

8. 
Ah ! yes, he was a mighty king, 

A mighty king, full flushed with youth ; 

He cared not then what ruin lay 

Upon his desolating way ; 

Xot his the cause of God or Truth, 

But the brute lust of conquering. 



J 6 THE YEAB-KIXG. 

9. 

Nought could resist his mighty will, 

The green grass withered where he stood ; 
His ruthless hands were prompt to seize 
Upon the tresses of the trees ; 
Then shrieked the maidens of the wood, 
And the saplings of the hill. 

10. 
Nought could resist his mighty will ; 

For in his ranks rode spectral Death ; 

The old expired through very fear, 

And pined the young, when he came near ; 

The faintest flatter of his breath 

Was sharp enough to kill. 

11. 

Nought could resist his mighty will ; 

The flowers fell dead beneath his tread ; 
The streams of life, that through the plains 
Throb night and day through crystal veins, 
"With feverish pulses frighten' d fled, 
Or curdled, and grew still. 



THE YEAK-KIXGL 77 

12. 

Nought could resist his mighty will ; 

On rafts of ice, blue-hued, like steel, 

He crossed the broadest rivers o'er ; 

Ah ! me, and then was heard no more 

The murmur of the peaceful wheel 

That turned the peasant's mill. 

13. 
But why the evil that attends 

On "War recall to further view ? 

Accursed War ! — the world too well 

Knows what thou art — thou fiend of hell ! 

The heartless havoc of a few, 

For their own selfish ends ! 

14. 

Soon, soon the youthful conqueror 

Pelt moved, and bade the horrors cease ; 
Nature resumed its ancient sway, 
Warm tears rolled down the cheeks of Day, 
And Spring, the harbinger of peace, 
Proclaimed the fight was o'er. 



& THE YEAH-KIXG. 

15. 

Oil ! what a change came o'er the world ; 
The winds, that cut like naked swords, 
Shed balm upon the wounds they made ; 
And they who came the first to aid 
The foray of grim winter's hordes 
The flag of truce unfurled. 

16. 
Oh ! how the song of joy, the sound 

Of rapture thrills the leaguered camps ; 

The tinkling showers like cymbals clash 

Upon the late leaves of the ash, 

And blossoms hang like festal lamps 

On all the trees around. 

IT. 
And there is sunshine, sent to strew 

God's cloth of gold, whereon may dance, 

To music that harmonious moves, 

The linked Graces and the Loves ; 

Making reality romance, 

And rare romance even more than true. 



THE YEAH-KLXG. 79 

18. 

The fields laughed out in dimpling flowers, 

The stream's bine eyes flashed bright with smiles ; 

The pale-faced clonds turned rosy-red, 

As they looked down from over head ; 

Then fled o'er continents and isles, 

To shed their happy tears in showers. 

19. 
The youthful monarch's heart grew light 

To find what joy good deeds can shed; 

To nurse the orphan buds that bent 

Over each turf-piled monument, 

Wherein the parent flowers lay dead 

Who perished in that fight. 

20. 
And as he roamed from day to day, 

Atoning thus to flower and tree. 

Flinging his lavish gold around 

In countless yellow flowers, he found, 

By gladsome-weeping April's knee, 

The modest maiden Hav. 



80 THE YEAB-KING. 

21. 

Oh ! she was young as angels are, 

Ere the eternal youth they lead 

Gives any clue to tell the hours 

They've spent in heaven's Elysian bowers ; 

Ere God before their eyes decreed 

The birth-day of some beauteous star. 

22. 

Oh ! she was fair as are the leaves 

Of pale white roses, when the light 
Of sunset, through some trembling bough, 
Kisses the queen-flower's blushing brow, 
Nor leaves it red nor marble white, 
But rosy -pale, like April eves. 

23. 

Her eyes were like forget-me-nots, 

Dropped in the silvery snow-drop's cup, 
Or on the folded myrtle buds, 
The azure violet of the woods ; 
Just as the thirsty sun drinks up 
The dewy diamonds on the plots. 



THE YEAR-EESTG. 81 

24. 

And her sweet breath was like the sighs 
Breathed by a babe of Youth and Love ; 
When all the fragrance of the South 
From the cleft cherry of its mouth, 
Meets the fond lips that from above 
Stoop to caress its slumbering eyes. 

25. 

He took the maiden by the hand, 

And led her in her simple gown 
Unto a hamlet's peaceful scene, 
Upraised her standard on the green ; 
And crowned her with a rosy crown 
The beauteous Queen of all the land. 

26. 

And happy was the maiden's reign — 

For Peace, and Mirth, and twin-born Love 
Came forth from out men's hearts tha day, 
Their gladsome fealty to pay ; 
And there was music in the grove, 
And dancing on the plain. 

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&2 THE YEAR-KING. 

27. 

And Labour carolled at his task, 

Like the blithe bird that sings and builds 
His happy household 'mid the leaves ; 
And now the fibrous twig he weaves, 
And now he sings to her who gilds 
The sole horizon he doth ask. 

28. 
And Sickness half forgot its pain, 

And Sorrow half forgot its grief ; 

And Eld forgot that it was old, 

As if to show the age of gold 

Was not the poet's fond belief, 

But every year conies back again. 

29. 

The Year-King passed along his way, 

Rejoiced, rewarded, and content ; 
He passed to distant lands and new ; 
For other tasks he had to do ; 
But wheresoe'er the wanderer went, 
He ne'er forgot his darling May. 



THE YEAR- KING. 83 

30. > 

He sent her stems of living gold 
From the rich plains of western lands, 
And purple -gushing grapes from vines 
Born of the amorous sun that shines 
Where Tagus rolls its golden sands. 
Or Guadalete old. 

31. 

And citrons from Firenze's fields, 

And golden apples from the isles 
That gladden the bright southern seas. 

True home of the Hesperides ; 

Which now no dragon guards, but smiles. 

The bounteous mother, as she yields. 

32. 
And then the King grew old like Lear — 

His blood waxed chill, his beard grew gray ; 

He changed his sceptre for a staff : 

And as the thoughtless children laugh 

To see him totter on his way, 

He knew his destined hour was near, 
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84 THE YEAR-KING. 

33. 

And soon it came ; and here he strives, 
Outstretched upon his snow-white bier, 
To reconcile the dread account — 
How stands the balance, what the amount ; 
As we shall do with trembling fear 
When our last hour arrives. 

34. 
Come, let us kneel around his bed, 

And pray unto his God and ours 
For mercy on his servant here : 
Oh, God be with the dying Year ! 
And God be with the happy hours 
That died before their sire lay dead ! 

35. 
And as the bells commingling ring 

The Xew Year in, the Old Year out, 
Muffled and sad, and now in peals 
"With which the quivering belfry reels, 
Grateful and hopeful be the shout, 
The Zing is dead ! — Long live the King ! 
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85 



THE AWAKING. 



1. 

A Lady came to a snow-white bier, 

Where a youth, lay pale and dead ; 
She took the veil from her widowed head, 
And, bending low, in his ear she said — 
Awaken ! for I am here. 

2. 

She pass'd with a smile to a wild wood near, 
Where the boughs were barren and bare ; 
She tapp'd on the bark with her fingers fair, 
And call'd to the leaves that were buried there- 
Awaken ! for I am here. 



86 THE AWAKING. 

3. 

The birds beheld her without a fear 

As she walk'd through the dank-moss' d dells; 
She breathed on their downy citadels, 
And whisper' d the young in their ivory shells — 
Awaken ! for I am here. 

4. 
On the graves of the flowers she dropp' d a tear, 
But with hope and with joy, like us ; 
And even as the Lord to Lazarus, 
She call'd to the slumbering sweet flowers thus — 
Awaken ! for I am here. 



To the lilies that lay in the silver mere, 
To the reeds by the golden pond ; 
To the moss by the rounded marge beyond, 
She spoke, with her voice so soft and fond— 
Awaken ! for I am here. 



THE AWAKING. 87 

6. 

The violet peep'd, with its blue eye clear, 
From under its own gravestone ; 
Tor the blessed tidings around had flown, 
And before she spoke, the impulse was known — 
Awaken ! for I am here. 

7, 
The pale grass lay with its long locks sere 
On the breast of the open plain ; 
She loosened the matted hair of the slain, 
And cried, as she filled each juicy vein — 
Awaken ! for I am here. 

8. 
The rush rose up, with its pointed spear ; 
The flag, with its falchion broad ; 
The dock uplifted its shield unawed, 
As her voice ran clear through the quickening 
sod — 

Awaken ! for I am here. 



88 THE AWAKING. 

9. 

The red blood ran through the clover near, 
And the heath on the hills overhead; 
The daisy's fingers were tipp'd with red, 
As she started to life, when the Lady said— 
Awaken ! for I am here. 

10. 

And the young Year rose from his snow-white bier, 
And the flowers from their green retreat ; 
And they came and knelt at the Lady's feet, 
Saying all, with their mingled voices sweet— 
Lady ! behold us here, 

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89 



THE EESUEKECTIOK 



1. 
The day of wintry wrath is o'er, 
The whirlwind and the storm have pass'd, 
The whiten' d ashes of the snow 
Enwrap the ruined world no more ; 
Nor keenly from the orient blow, 
The venom' d hissings of the blast. 

2. 

The frozen tear-drops of despair 
Have melted from the trembling thorn ; 
Hope plumes unseen her radiant wing, 
And lo ! amid the expectant air, 
The trumpet of the Angel Spring, 
Proclaims the Eesurrection morn. 



90 THE KESUKKECTIOX. 

3. 

Oh ! what a wave of gladsome sound 

Eims rippling round the shores of space, 
As the requicken'd earth upheaves 
The swelling bosom of the ground, 
And Death's cold pallor, startled, leaves 
The deepening roses of her face. 

4. 
Up from their graves the dead arise, 

The dead and buried flowers of Spring ; 

Up from their graves in glad amaze, 

Once more to view the long-lost skies, 

Resplendent with the dazzling rays 

Of their great coming Lord and King. 

o. 
And lo ! even like that mightiest one, 

In the world's last and awful hour, 

Surrounded by the starry seven, 

So comes God's greatest work, the Sun, 

Upborne upon the clouds of heaven, 

In pomp, and majesty, and power. 



THE EESTJRRECTIOX. 91 

6. 

The virgin snowdrop bends its head 
Above its grave in grateful prayer ; 
The daisy lifts its radiant brow, 
With a saint's glory round it shed ; 
The violet's worth, unhidden now, 
Is wafted wide by every air. 

7. 
The parent stem reclasps once more 

Its long- lost severed buds and leaves; 

Once more the tender tendrils twine 

Around the forms they clasped of yore : 

The very rain is now a sign, 

Great Nature's heart no longer grieves. 

8. 
And now the judgment-hour arrives, 

And now their final doom they know ; 

No dreadful doom is theirs, whose birth' 

"Was not more stainless than their lives ; 

'Tis goodness calls them from the earth, 

And mercy tells them where to go. 



92 THE RESURRECTION. 

9. 

Some of them fly with glad accord, 

Obedient to the high behest, 

To worship "with their fragrant breath 

Around the altars of the Lord ; 

And some, from nothingness and death, 

Pass to the heaven of beauty's breast. 

10. 
Oh ! let the simple fancy be 

Prophetic of our final doom ; 

Grant us, Lord, when from the sod 

Thou deign' st to call us too, that we 

Pass to the bosom of our God 

Prom the dark nothing of the tomb ! 

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93 



THE FIEST OE THE ANGELS. 



1. 
Hush ! hush ! through the azure expanse of the sky, 
Comes a low, gentle sound, 'twixt a laugh and a sigh; 
And I rise from my writing, and look up on high, 
And I kneel — for the first of God's angels is nigh ! 

2. 

Oh ! how to describe what my rapt eyes descry ! — 
Eor the blue of the sky is the blue of his eye ; 
And the white clouds, whose whiteness the snow- 
flakes outvie, 
Are the luminous pinions on which he doth fly ! 



94 THE FIRST OF THE AXGELS. 



And his garments of gold gleam at times like the 

pyre 
Of the west, when the snn in a blaze doth expire ; — - 
Xow tinged like the orange — now gaming with 

fire! — 
Half the crimson of roses and purple of Tyre. 

4. 

And his voice, on whose accents the angels have 

hung — 
He himself a bright angel, immortal and young — 
Scatters melody sweeter the green buds among, 
Than the poet e'er wrote, or the nightingale sung. 



It comes on the balm-bearing breath of the breeze, 
And the odours, that later will gladden the bees, 
"With a life and a freshness united to these, 
From the rippling of waters, and rustling of trees. 



THE FIRST OF THE ANGELS. 95 

6. 

Like a swan to its young o'er the glass of a pond, 
So to earth comes the angel, as graceful and fond ; 
While a bright beam of sunshine — his magical 

wand — 
Strikes the fields at my feet, and the mountains 

beyond. 

7. 
They waken — they start into life at a bound — 
Flowers climb the tall hillocks, and cover the ground ; 
"With a nimbus of glory the mountains are crown' d, 
As their rivulets rush to the ocean profound. 

8. 
There is life on the earth — there is calm on the sea, 
And the rough waves are smoothed, and the frozen 

are free ; 
And they gambol and ramble like boys, in their glee, 
Round the shell- shining strand on the grass-bearing 

lea. 



96 THE FIEST OF THE AXGELS. 

9. 
There is love for the young — there is life for the old, 
And wealth for the needy, and heat for the cold ; 
For the dew scatters, nightly, its diamonds untold, 
And the snowdrop its silver — the crocus its gold ! 

10. 

God ! — whose goodness and greatness we bless and 
adore — 

Be Thou praised for this angel — the first of the four — 

To whose charge Thou hast given the world's utter- 
most shore, 

To guide it, and guard it, till time is no more ! 

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97 



SPIRIT VOICES. 



1. 

There are voices, spirit voices, sweetly sounding 

everywhere, 
At whose coming earth rejoices, and the echoing 

realms of air, 
And their joy and jubilation pierce the near and reach 

the far — 
From the rapid world's gyration to the twinkling of 

the star. 

H 



y» SPIEIT YOTCES. 

2. 

One, a potent voice uplifting, stops the white cloud 

on its way, 
As it drives with driftless drifting o'er the vacant 

vault of day, 
And in sounds of soft upbraiding calls it down the 

void inane 
To the gilding and the shading of the mountain and 

the plain. 

3. 

Aiiy offspring of the fountains, to thy destined duty 

sail — 
Seek it on the proudest mountains, seek it in the 

humblest vale ; 
Howsoever high thou fliest, how so deep it bids 

thee go, 
Be a beacon to the highest and a blessing to the 

low. 



SPIRIT VOICES. 99 

4. 

When the sad earth, broken-hearted, hath not even 

a tear to shed, 

And her very sonl seems parted for her children lying- 
dead, 

Send the streams with warmer pulses through that 
frozen fount of fears, 

And the sorrow that convulses, soothe and soften 
down to tears. 



Bear the sunshine and the shadow, bear the rain-drop 

and the snow, 
Bear the night-dew to the meadow, and to hope the 

promised bow, 
Bear the moon, a moving mirror for her angel face 

and form, 
And to guilt and wilful error bear the lightning and 
the storm. 

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100 SPIRIT VOICES. 

6. 

When thou thus hast done thy duty on the earth and 
o'er the sea. 

Bearing many a beam of beauty, ever bettering what 
must be, 

Thus reflecting heaven's pure splendour and con- 
cealing ruined clay, 

Up to God thy spirit render, and dissolving pass 



I. 

And with fond solicitation, speaks another to the 

streams — 
Leave your airy isolation, quit the cloudy land of 

dreams, 
Break the lonely peak's attraction, burst the solemn 

silent glen, 
Seek the living world of action and the busy haunts 

of men. 



SPIEIT VOICES. 101 



Turn the mill-wheel with thy fingers, turn the 

steam-wheel with thy breath, 
With thy tide that never lingers save the dying fields 

from death ; 
Let the swiftness of thy currents bear to man the 

freight-fill'd ship, 
And the crystal of thy torrents bring refreshment to 

his lip. 

9. 

And when thou, rapid river, thy eternal home 

dost seek — 
When no more the willows quiver but to touch thy 

passing cheek — 
When the groves no longer greet thee and the shore 

no longer kiss — - 
Let infinitude come meet thee on the verge of the 

abyss. 



102 SPIEIT VOICES. 

10. 
Other voices seek to win us — low, suggestive, like 

the rest — 
But the sweetest is within us in the stillness of the 

breast ; 
Be it ours, with fond desiring, the same harvest to 

produce 
As the cloud in its aspiring and the river in its use. 

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103 



THE BRIDAL OF THE YEAR. 



Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, 
The bridal of the earth and sky. 

George Herbert. 



1. 

Yes ! the summer is returning, 
Warmer, brighter beams are burning ; 
Golden mornings, purple evenings, 

Come to glad the world once more. 
Nature from her long sojourning 
In the Winter-House of Mourning, 
With the light of hope outpeeping 
From those eyes that late were weeping, 
Cometh dancing o'er the waters 

To our distant shore. 



104 THE BEIDAL OF THE YEAE. 

On the boughs the birds are singing, 

Never idle, 

Tor the bridal 
Goes the frolic breeze a-ringing 
All the green bells on the branches, 
Which the soul of man doth hear ; 

Music -shaken, 

It doth waken, 

Half in hope and half in fear, 

And dons its festal garments for the Bridal of the 
Year ! 

2. 

For the year is sempiternal, 
Never wintry, never vernal, 
Still the same through all the changes 

That our wondering eyes behold. 
Spring is but his time of wooing — 
Summer but the sweet renewing 
Of the vows he utters yearly, 
Ever fondly and sincerely, 



THE BEIDAL OF THE YEAE. 105 

To the young Bride that he weddeth, 

"When to Heaven departs the old, 
For it is her fate to perish, 
Having brought him, 
In the Autumn, 
Children for his heart to cherish. 
Summer, like a human mother, 
Dies in bringing forth her young ; 
Sorrow blinds him, 
Winter finds him 
Childless, too, their graves among, 
Till May returns once more, and bridal hymns are 
sung. 

3. 

Thrice the great Betrothed naming, 
Thrice the mystic banns proclaiming, 
February, March, and April, 

Spread the tidings far and wide ; 
Thrice they questioned each new-comer, 
"Know ye, why the sweet-faced Summer, 



106 THE BEIDAL OE THE YEAR. 

With her rich imperial dower, 
Golden fruit and diamond flower, 
And her pearly rain-drop trinkets, 

Should not be the green Earth's Bride ?" 
All things vocal spoke elated 

(Nor the voiceless 

Did rejoice less) — 
"Be the marriage consummated!" 
All the many murmuring voices 
Of the music-breathing Spring, 

Young birds twittering, 

Streamlets glittering, 
Insects on transparent wing, — 
All hailed the Summer nuptials of their King ! 

4, 
Now the rosy east gives warning 
'Tis the wished-for nuptial morning. 
Sweetest truant from Elysium, 
Golden morning of the May ! 



THE BRIDAL OF THE YEAE. 107 

All the guests are in their places — 
Lilies with pale, high-bred faces — 
Hawthorns in white wedding favours, 
Scented with celestial savours — 
Daisies, like sweet country maidens, 
Wear white scolloped frills to-day ; 
'JSeath her hat of straw the Peasant 

Primrose sitteth, 

JNor permitteth 
Any of her kindred present, 
'Specially the milk-sweet cowslip, 
E'er to leave the tranquil shade ; 

By the hedges, 

Or the edges 
Of some stream or grassy glade, 
They look upon the scene half wistful, half afraid. 

5. 

Other guests, too, are invited, 
From the alleys dimly lighted, 



108 THE BEIDAL OF THE YEAK. 

Prom the pestilential vapours 
Of the over-peopled town — 
Prom the fever and the panic, 
Comes the hard- worked, swarth mechanic- 
Comes his young wife, pallor- stricken 
At the cares that round her thicken — 
Comes the boy whose brow is wrinkled, 

Ere his chin is clothed in down — 
And the foolish pleasure-seekers, 

Nightly thinking 

They are drinking 
Life and joy from poisoned beakers, 
Shudder at their midnight madness, 
And the raving revel scorn : 

All are treading 

To the wedding 
In the freshness of the morn, 
And feel, perchance too late, the bliss of being born. 

6. 

And the Student leaves his poring, 

And his venturous exploring 



THE EEIDAL OF THE YEAE. 109 

In the gold and gem- enfolding 
"Waters of the ancient lore — 
Seeking in its bnried treasures, 
Means for life's most common pleasures; 
Neither vicious nor ambitious — 
Simple wants and simple wishes. 
Ah ! he finds the ancient learning 

But the Spartan's iron ore ; 
Without value in an era 
Far more golden 
Than the olden — 
When the beautiful chimera — 
Love — hath almost wholly faded 
Even from the dreams of men. 
From his prison 
Newly risen — 
From his book-enchanted den — 
The stronger magic of the morning drives him forth 
again. 



110 THE BRIDAL OF THE YEAE. 

7. 

And trie Artist, too — the Gifted — 
He whose soul is heavenward lifted — 
Till it drinketh inspiration 

At the fountain of the skies ; 
He, within whose fond embraces 
Start to life the marble Graces ; 
Or, with godlike power presiding, 
"With the potent pencil gliding, 
O'er the void chaotic canvass 
Bids the fair creations rise ! 
And the quickened mass obeying 

Heaves its mountains ; 

From its fountains 
Sends the gentle streams a-straying 
Through the vales, like Love's first feelings 
Stealing o'er a maiden's heart; 

The Creator — 

Imitator — 



THE BBIDAL OE THE YEAR. Ill 

From his easel forth doth start, 
And from God's glorious Nature learns anew his 
Art! 



But who is this with tresses flowing, 
Plashing eyes and forehead glowing, 
From whose lips the thunder-music 

Pealeth o'er the listening lands ? 
'Tis the first and last of preachers — 
First and last of priestly teachers ,* 
First and last of those appointed 
In the ranks of the anointed ; 
With their songs like swords to sever 

Tyranny and Falsehood's bands ! 
'Tis the Poet — sum and total 
Of the others, 
With his brothers, 
In his rich robes sacerdotal, 
Singing from his golden psalter. 



112 THE BBJBAL OP THE YEAH. 

Comes he now to wed the twain — 
Truth and Beauty — 
Eest and Duty — 
Hope, and Fear, and Joy, and Pain, 
Unite for weal or woe beneath the Poet's chain ! 

9. 

And the shapes that follow after, 

Some in tears and some in laughter, 
Are they not the fairy phantoms 

In his glorious visions seen ? 
Nymphs from shad}' forests wending, 
Goddesses from heaven descending ; 
Three of Jove's divinest daughters, 
Xine from Aganippe's waters; 
And the passion-immolated, 

Too fond-hearted Tyrian Queen, 
Various shapes of one idea, 

Memory-haunting, 

Heart-enchanting, 
Cythna, Genevieve, and $ea( 4 ) ; 
Kosalind and all her sisters, 






THE BELDAL OF THE YEAE. 113 

Born by Avon's sacred stream, 

All the blooming 

Shapes, illuming 
" The Eternal Pilgrim's"( 6 ) dream, 
Follow the Poet's steps beneath the morning's beam. 

10. 
But the Bride — the Bride is coming ! 

Birds are singing, bees are humming ; 

Silent lakes amid the mountains 

Look, but cannot speak, their mirth ; 

Streams go bounding in their gladness 

"With a Bacchanalian madness ; 

Trees bow down their heads in wonder, 

Clouds of purple part asunder, 

As the Maiden of the Morning 

Leads the blushing Bride to Earth ! 

Bright as are the planets seven — 

With her glances 

She advances 

For her azure eyes are heaven ! 

i 



114 the beedal of the yeae. 

And her robes are sunbeams woven, 

And her beauteous bridesmaids are 

Hopes and Wishes — 

Dreams delicious — 

Joys from some serener star, 

And heavenly-hued Illusions gleaming from afar ! 

11. 

^ow the mystic rite is over — 

Blessings on the loved and lover ! 
Strike the tabours, clash the cymbals. 

Let the notes of joy resound ! 
"With the rosy apple blossom, 
Blushinglike a maiden's bosom; 
With the cream- white clusters pearly 
Of the pear-tree budding early ; 
With all treasures from the meadows 

Strew the consecrated ground ; 
Let the guests with vows fraternal 
Pledge each other, 
Sister, brother, 
With the wine of Hope — the vernal 



THE BHLDAL 0E THE YEAH. 115 

Vine-juice of Man's better nature — 
Vintage of Man's trustful heart. 
Perseverance 
And Forbearance, 
Love and Labour, Song and Art, — 
Be this the cheerful creed wherewith the world may 
start. 

12. 

But whither have the twain departed ? 

The United — the One-hearted — 
Whither from the bridal banquet 

Have the Bride and Bridegroom flown ? 
Ah ! their steps have led them quickly 
Where the young leaves cluster thickly ; 
Blossomed boughs rain fragrance o'er them, 
Greener grows the grass before them, 
As they wander through the island, 

Fond, delighted, and alone ! 
At their coming streams grow brighter, 
Skies grow clearer, 
Mountains nearer, 
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116 THE BKIDAL OF THE YEAE. 

And the blue waves dancing lighter 
From the far-off mighty ocean 
Frolic on the glistening sand, 
Jubilations — 
Gratulations — 
Breathe around, as, hand in hand, 
They roam by Sutton's sea- washed shore, or soft 
Shanganagh's strand. 



MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 



MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 



THE SPIEIT OF THE IDEAL. 



1. 
Sweet Sister Spirits, ye whose starlight tresses 

Stream on the night-winds as ye float along, 

Missioned with hope to man — and with caresses 

2. 
To slumbering babes — refreshment to the strong — 

And grace the sensuous soul that it's arrayed in : 

As the light burden of melodious song 

3. 

Weighs down a Poet's words; — as an o'erladen 

Lily doth bend beneath its own pure snow ; — 
Or with its joy, the free heart of a maiden : — 



120 THE SPIEIT OF THE IDEAL. 

4. 

Thus, I behold your outstretched pinions grow 

Heavy with all the priceless gifts and graces 
God through thy ministration doth bestow. 

5. 

Do ye not plant the rose on youthful faces ? 

And rob the heavens of stars for Beauty's eyes < 
Do ye not fold within love's pure embraces 

6. 
All that Omnipotence doth yet devise 

For human bliss, or rapture superhuman — 

Heaven upon earth, and earth still in the skies ? 

7. 
Do ye not sow the fruitful heart of woman 

"With tenderest charities, and faith sincere, 

To feed man's sterile soul, and to illumine 

8. 
His duller eyes, that else might settle here, 

With the bright promise of a purer region — 

A starlight beacon to a starry sphere ? 



THE SPIEIT OF THE IDEAL. 121 

9. 

Are they not all thy children, that bright legion — 

Of aspirations, and all hopeful sighs 
That in the solemn train of grave Eeligion 

10. 
Strew heavenly flowers before man's longing eyes, 

And make him feel, as o'er life's sea he wendeth, 

The far-off odorous airs of Paradise ? — 

11. 

Like to the breeze some flowery island sendeth 

Unto the seaman, ere its bowers are seen, 
Which tells him soon his weary wandering endeth — 

12. 

Soon shall he rest, in bosky shades of green, 

By daisied meadows prankt with dewy flowers, 
With ever-running rivulets between. 

13. 
These are thy tasks, my sisters, — these the powers 

God in his goodness gives into thy hands : — 
'Tis from thy fingers fall the diamond showers 



122 THE SPIRIT OF THE IDEAJ,. 

14. 

Of budding Spring, and o'er the expectant lands 

June's- odorous purple and rich Autumn's gold : 
And even when needful Winter wide expands 

15. 

His fallow wings, and winds blow sharp and cold 

Prom the harsh east, 'tis thine, o'er ail the plain, 
The leafless woodlands and the unsheltered wold, 

16. 
Gently to drop the flakes of feathery rain — 

Heaven's warmest down — around the slumber- 
ing seeds, 
And o'er the roots the frost-blanched counterpane. 

17. 

What though man's careless eye but little heeds 

Even the effects, much less the remoter cause, 
Still, in the doing of beneficent deeds — 

18. 
By God and his Vicegerent Nature's laws — 

Ever a compensating joy is found. 

Think ye the rain-drop heedeth if it draws 



THE SPIRIT OF THE IDEAL. 123 

19. 

Rankness as well as Beauty from the ground ? 

Or that the sullen wind will deign to wake 
Only iEolian melodies of sound — 

20. 

And not the stormy screams that make men quake 

Thus do ye act, my sisters ; thus ye do 
Your cheerful duty for the doing's sake— 

21. 
Xot unrewarded surely — not when you 

See the successful issue of your charms, 

Bringing the absent back again to view — 

22. 

Giving the loved one to the lover's arms — 

Smoothing the grassy couch for weary age — 
Hushing in death's great calm a world's alarms. 

23. 

I, I alone upon the earth's vast stage 

Am doomed to act an unrequited part — 
I, the unseen preceptress of the sage — 



124 THE SPIKIT OF THE IDEAL. 

24. 

I, whose ideal form doth win the heart 

Of all whom God's vocation hath assigned 
To wear the sacred vesture of high Art — 

25. 

To pass along the electric sparks of mind 

From age to age, from race to race, until 
The expanding truth encircles all mankind. 

26. 
What without me were all the Poet's skill? — 

Dead sensuous form without the quickening 

soul. 

What without me the instinctive aim of will ? — 

27. 

A useless magnet pointing to no pole. 

What the fine ear and the creative hand ? 
Most potent Spirits free from Man's control. 

28. 
I, the Ideal, by the Poet stand 

When all his soul o'ernows with holy fire, 

When currents of the beautiful and grand 



THE SPIEIT OF THE IDEAL. 125 

29. 

Run glittering down along each burning wire, 

Until the heart of the great world doth feel 
The electric shock of his God-kindled lyre : — 

30. 
Then rolls the thunderous music peal on peal, 

Or in the breathless after-pause, a strain 

Simpler and sweeter through the hush doth steal — 

31. 

Like to the pattering drops of summer rain 

On rustling grass, when fragrance fills the air, 
And all the groves are vocal once again : 

32. 

Whatever form, whatever shape I bear, 

The Spirit of high Impulse, and the Soul 
Of all conceptions beautiful and rare, 

33. 

Am I ; who now swift spurning all control, 

On rapid wings — the Ariel of the Muse — 
Dart from the dazzling centre to the pole ; 



126 THE SPIRIT OF THE IDEAL. 

34. 

Xow in the magic mimicry of hues 

Such as surround God's golden throne, descend 
In Titian's skies the boundaries to confuse 

35. 

Betwixt Earth's Heaven and Heaven's own Heaven- 

to blend 
In Eaphael's forms the human and divine, 
"Where spirit dawns, and matter seems to end. 

38, 
Again on wings of melody, so fine 

They mock the sight, but fall upon the ear 

Like tuneful rose-leaves at the day's decline — 

37. 
And with the music of a happier sphere 

Entrance some master of melodious sound, 

Till startled men the hymns of angels hear. 

38. f 
Happy for me when, in the vacant round 

Of barren ages, one great steadfast soul 

Faithful to me and to his art is found. 



THE SPIRIT OF THE IDEAL. 127 

39. 

But ah ! my sisters, with my grief condole ; 

Join in my sorrows and respond my sighs ; 
And let yonr sobs the funeral dirges toll ; 

40. 
Weep those who falter in the great emprise — 

Who, turning off upon some poor pretence, 

Some worthless guerdon or some paltry prize, 

41. 
Down from the airy zenith through the immense 

Sink to the low expedients of an hour, 

And barter soul for all the slough of sense, — 

42. 
Just when the mind had reached its regal power, 

And fancy's wing its perfect plumes unfurl' d, — 
Just when the bud of promise, in the flower 

43. 

Of all completeness opened on the world — 

When the pure fire that Heaven itself outflung 
Back to its native empyrean curled, 



128 THE SPIRIT OF THE IDEAL. 

44. 
Like vocal incense from a censer swung : — 

Ah me ! to be subdued when all seemed won- 

That I should fly when I would fain have clung. 

45. 
Yet so it is, — our radiant course is run ; — 

Here we must part, the deathless lay unsung, 

And, more than all, the deathless deed undone. 

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129 



RECOLLECTIONS. 



I. 

1. 

Ah ! Summer time, sweet Summer scene, 

"When all the golden days, 
Linked hand in hand, like moonlit fays, 
Danced o'er the deepening green. 

2. 

When, from the top of Pelier( 7 ) down 

We saw the sun descend, 

With smiles that blessings seemed to send 
To our near native town. 



130 RECOLLECTIONS. 

3. 

And when we saw him rise again 
High o'er the hills at mom — 
God's glorious prophet daily born 

To preach good- will to men — 



Grood-will and peace to all between 
The gates of night and day — 
Join with me, love, and with me say- 
Sweet Summer time and scene. 



II. 



1. 

Sweet Summer time, true age of gold, 
When hand in hand we went 
Slow by the quickening shrubs, intent 

To see the buds unfold : 



RECOLLECTIONS. 131 

2. 
To trace new-wild flowers in the grass, 

^ew blossoms on the bough, 

And see the water-lilies now 
Eise o'er their liquid glass. 

3. 

When from the fond and folding gale 

The scented brier I pulled, 

Or for thy kindred bosom culled 
The lily of the vale ; — 

4. 

Thou without whom were dark the green, 

The golden turned to gray, 

Join with me, love, and with me say — 
Sweet Summer time and scene. 



k 2 



132 KECOLLECTIONS. 



III. 
1. 

Sweet Summer time, delight's brief reign, 
Thou hast one memory still. 
Dearer than ever tree or hill 

Yet stretched along life's plain. 

2. 

Stranger than all the wond'rous whole, 
Flowers, fields, and sunset skies — 
To see within our infant's eyes 

The awakening of the soul. 

3. 

To see their dear bright depths first stirred 
By the far breath of thought, 
To feel our trembling hearts o'erfraught 

With rapture when we heard 



BECOLLECTIOFS. 133 

4. 

Her first clear laugh, which might have been 
A cherub' s laugh at play — 
Ah! love, thou canst but join and say — 

Sweet Summer time and scene. 



IY. 

1. 
Sweet summer time, sweet summer days, 

One day I must recall ; 

One day, the brightest of them all, 
Must mark with special praise. 

2. 

'Twas when at length in genial showers 
The Spring attained its close ; 
And June with many a myriad rose 

Incarnadined the bowers : 



134 RECOLLECTIONS. 

3. 

Led by the bright and sun- warm air, 

We left our indoor nooks ; 
Thou with my papers and my books, 
And I thy garden-chair ; 

4. 
Crossed the broad, level garden walks, 

With countless roses lined ; 

And where the apple still inclined 

Its blossoms o'er the box, 

5. 
Near to the lilacs round the pond, 

In its stone ring hard by, 

We took our seats, where, save the sky, 

And the few forest trees beyond 

6. 
The garden wall, we nothing saw, 

But flowers and blossoms, and we heard 

bought but the whirring of some bird, 

Or the rooks' distant, clamorous caw. 



RECOLLECTIONS. 135 

7. 
And in the shade we saw the face 

Of our dear Mary sleeping near, 

And thou wert by to smile and hear, 

And speak with innate truth and grace. 

8. 
There through the pleasant noontide hours 

My task of echoed song I sung ; 

Turning the golden southern tongue 

Into the iron ore of ours ! 

'Twas the great Spanish master's pride, 

The story of the hero proved; 

'Twas how the Moorish princess loved, 
And how the firm Fernando died( 8 ). 

10, 

happiest season ever seen, 

day, indeed the happiest day ; 
Join with me, love, and with me say — 
Sweet Summer time and scene. 



136 RECOLLECTIONS, 



Y. 



1. 
One picture more before 1 close 

Fond Memory's fast dissolving views; 

One picture more before I lose 
The radiant outlines as they rose. 

2. 

'Tis evening, and we leave the porch, 
And for the hundredth time admire 
The rhododendron's cones of fire 

Rise round the tree, like torch o'er torch. 

3. 

And for the hundredth time point out 

Each favourite blossom and perfume — 
If the white lilac still doth bloom, 

Or the pink hawthorn fadeth out : 



RECOLLECTIONS. 137 

4. 

And by the laurell'd wall, and o'er 

The fields of young green corn we've gone ; 

And by the outer gate, and on 
To our dear friend's oft-trodden door. 

5. 
And there in cheerful talk we stay, 

Till deepening twilight warns us home ; 

Then once again we backward roam 

Calmly and slow the well-known way — 

6. 
And linger for the expected view — 

Day's dying gleam upon the hill; 

Or listen for the whip-poor- will( 9 ), 

Or the too seldom shy cuckoo. 

7. 
At home the historic page we glean, 

And muse, and hope, and praise, and pray — 

Join with me, love, as then, and say — 

Sweet Summer time and scene ! 



1850. 



138 



MOOEE. 



AX ELEGIAC ODE. 



" He lives, he wakes— 'tis Death is dead, not he,"— Adonais. 



1. 

Ah ! vainly, vainly to my heart is calling 
The poet's playmate of the year — the Spring. 
Vainly it comes — a bright-eyed, glad-faced boy, 
With pulses throbbing joy ; 
With, eyes that twinkle, and with feet that bonnd 
Along the grassy ground, 
As if each flying foot were sandalled with a wing ; 
Vainly it comes to tempt me forth to play, 

And spend the poet's holiday — 
The vernal season of sweet recreation, 
The heart's too brief vacation 



3I00KE. 139 

Amid the task- works of the toiling year; — 

For now the daisy's pearly disks appear 
To light the early meadow's emerald sky; 

Each a little silver sun is seen 
Amid its circling heaven of green ; 

While round about in due gradation, 

Through mystic gravitation, 
The minor fragrant orbs concentric lie. 

2. 

Ah ! vainly, vainly on my ear is falling 
The old, but ever new, sweet melodies 
Sung by the feathered syrens of the trees, 
That lured my steps so oft, 
On spring-tide silvery morning soft, 
From the broad highway, or the glaring green, 
To where a flickering sheen 
Of dark and bright mosaic lights the lea 
Beneath the fresh-green copse — 
What time, in tiny flakes, soft eddying, drops 
The fragrant snow-shower from the hawthorn 
tree. 



140 MOORE. 

Yainly the glad birds twitter now 
Upon each conscious bongh — 
Upon each conscious bough that shares their 
glee, 
And with exulting ecstacy 
Trembles through every fibrous vein, 

And seems to feel the magic of the strain, 
And sinks and soars, and soars and sinks again ! 

3. 

'Not that my heart is dead or cold 
To the most common sight, the most familiar sound 
Of natural beauty or impulsive joy. 
Ah ! no, thank Heaven ! not so ; 
At heart the poet ever is a boy, 
Howe'er the years go round : 
For though his pallid brow may grow 

Furrowed and worn, and with thin silver 
hair, 
As with a fading cirrus cloud, be hung, 
His heart is ever young — 



MOOEE. 141 

Perpetual youth is there. 
It is not that the earth has grown less fair, 
This last of all the Springs it yet hath known, 
That I behold it not with my accustomed glad- 
ness ; — 
Ah ! no, not over it, but o'er my heart is 
thrown 
A funeral pall of sadness — 
A filmy veil of sorrow is outspread 

Before my eyes, as by a mourner's hand, 
For the poet of my people, for the minstrel of my land, 
Who is dead ! 

4. 

Dead ! ah, no — he has returned to life. 

In living death for three blank years he lay, 
And now comes forth from the protracted strife, 

A conqueror to-day. 
To him the common foe no terror brought, 

Nor the heart's tremor, nor the gasping breath; 



142 MOORE. 

Por, like his own Mokanna's veil, 
A trebly-folded woof of blank unthought 
Concealed the horrid front of Death — 
The ghastly visage pale ! 
Thrice had the fair magician of the year, 
Her potent wand applying, 
Saved the wintry world from dying ; 
And in the wondrous renovation, 
Recalled the freshness and the jubilation 
Of the world's primal day : 
So that the stars of heaven again prepared to sing 
Their songs of gratulation. 

He heeded not, or turned away : 
Unmarked the budding wonders of the Spring — 

The floral magic of the May ; 
And when the happy birds in every grove 

Sang hymns to Love, 
Prom the green temple of each stately tree — 
To Love, whose highest poet-priest was he : 

Alas ! 'twas all in vain ; 
He heeded not the fond adoring strain — 



^rooEE. 143 

Its music was unheard. 
Its magic and its meaning both had flown 
Its shrill, sweet echoing chirrup which the grove 
prolongs. 
Ah! me, what wonder, when his own sweet 

songs, 
The sweetest ever sang by bard or bird, 
Were to himself unknown ! 

5. 

But let us linger not, my soul, beside 

The poet's bier or his neglected grave ; . 

JSot burn to think of those to whom he gave 

A portion of his own immortal fame, 

Who when the last sad moment came — 

The hour that claimed the funeral rite august, 

For the poor portion of him that had died — 
Sullenly shunned the poet's sacred dust, 
Heedless of what was due to generous lays, 
And all the friendly fire of former days. 

The hour may come when on his mother's breast 

The darling child of sons; may take his rest ; 



144 MOOEE, 

Then shall the tribute of unnumbered eyes, 
Then shall the throbbing of unnumbered hearts, 
And all the tender cares that love imparts — 
Fond flattering praises, passion-breathing sighs, 
Grateful regrets, and hopeful prayers arise — 
Then shall the harp which he had woke so oft 
To breathe the varied lay — 
JVEirthful, melodious, melancholy, gay, 
Softly severe, and masculine, though soft — 

Firm, and yet fond, through every phase of 
form — 
And sunny satire, wounding but to warm — 
And fine-edged wit, keen-cutting but to cure — 
Then shall the harp's elegiac music float, 
As if it kept its sad prevailing note 
Prolonged through ages for the keen* of Moobe ! 

1852. 

* Proper^ Caoine, the funeral wail for the dead. 



ODE 

ON THE DEATH OF FREDERICK RICHARD, 
EARL OF BELFAST. 

BOKN 25th NOVEMBER, 1827 ; DIED AT NAPLES, FEB. 11, 1853, 
IN HIS 26th TEAK. 



146 ODE 0^ THE DEATH OF 



TO THE MARCHIONESS OF DONEGAL. 

Lady, the heart-won glory of thy son 
Turns his sad loss to such atoning gain, 
Making swift Death's malicious stroke as vain 
As the spent bullet when the victory's won, 
That I would wish this lyric feat undone, — 
These lines unwrit, or in a prouder strain, 
Such as befit a glorious young man slain 
In a career that heroes only run : 
Yet deign to take them — be their faults forgiven, 
Lady, for the sake of him they mourn. 
They should be joyful for the great boon given 
To thee, to us, and to this laud forlorn— 
To thee to have thy angel youth in heaven — 
To us, to boast his patriot pride unworn. 



THE EAEL OF BELFAST. 147 



TO THE MARQUIS OF DONEGAL. 

Easy it is to say, Be thou resigned, 

father, to the mightier Father's will, 

To bear the blow that at one stroke doth kill 

Thy Son, thy Friend, thy Brother, all combined 

In one dear centre : Easy to the blind 

It is to bear from the quick- shaded rill 

The absent sun that sets behind the hill, — 

That sun which late its morning beams entwined 

With those warm waves that now must darkened roil 

To the great deep : But yet take this to heart, 

The sun that leaves thee dark, from pole to pole, 

Plashes its light and heat : If sad thou art, 

The world is gladder by one glorious soul 

By Death and Love made consecrate to Art. 



12 



148 ODE OX THE DEATH OF 



ODE. 



Swifter far than summer's flight, 
Swifter far than youth's delight, 
Swifter far than happy night, 
Art thou come and gone. 

Shells r. 



PROEM. 

Maidens of Italy, 
jSapoli's daughters, 
Send the sad requiem 
Over the waters ; — 
Over the waters, 
Solemnly, slowly, 
Sing the sad requiem, 
Mournfully, lowly; — 
Sing the sad requiem, 
Chant the low ditty, 
Maids of the golden-shored 
Heaven-cinctured city, 



THE EAEL OF BELFAST. 149 

Ye who beheld him last, 
Fair with life's youthfulness, 
Heart- warm with nobleness, 
Soul-proud with truthfulness, 
Stricken down instantly, 
Wrapped in death's gloominess — 
While 'neath his window rose 
Living and luminous 
Azure-hued golden waves 

Parthenopean, 
Up to the Lord of Life 
Singing their pean. 
Borrow their musical 
Murmur, ye maidens, 
Weak words of elegy 
"Borrow their cadence. 
Wail him beside the blue 
Lazulite waters, 
Maidens of Italy, 
INapoli's daughters. 



150 ODE OX THE DEATH OF 



SONG OF ITALIAN MAIDENS. 

1. 

Sisteks, kneel beside this bier, 
Breathe the prayer, and shed the tear- 
Young Marcellus sleepeth here. 

2. 

Young Marcellus sleeping lies, 
With his slumber- sealed eyes 
"Waiting God's great sun to rise — 

3. 

Waiting to re-ope once more 
On a sweeter summer shore 
By the eternal water's roar. 

4. 
Scatter round about his bed 
Yiolets, ere their scent has fled, — 
Winter roses white and red. 



THE EARL OF BELFAST. 151 

5. 

Lay upon his gentle breast 

All the flowers that he loved best — 

Pansies be the mournfullest. 

6. 
Though this bed has grown a bier, 

Scatter snowdrops, scatter here 

All the promise of the year: — 

7. 
Being born to bloom and die 

They perchance may typify 

Him who here doth sleeping lie : 

Since we love those flowers the best 
That are plucked the earliest — 
As it were for God's own breast : 

9. 

Love them better far than those 

The maturer months disclose — 
Flaunting tulip, gaudy rose : 



152 ODE ON THE DEATH OF 

10. 

Love them for the proof they give 
That the world's great heart doth live ; - 
They the while so fugitive. 

11, 
Such was he who lieth here, 

With his leaves all drooping sere 

In the spring-time of his year. 

12. 
Here he came a wanderer, 

From the Northern Isles that are 

Watched by the western star. 

13. 
Here he came, to feast his eyes 

On an earthly heaven, with skies 

Borrowed still from Paradise : 

14, 

Came with rapture to behold 

Purple isles and seas of gold, 
And the dread Volcano old : 



THE EAEL OF BELFAST. 153 

15. 

Came with wonder to survey 

All the magic of the Bay, 

And the towns restored to-day — 

16. 
Or to pluck the flowers that bloom 

By the Mantuan Poet's tomb 

O'er the grotto's arch of gloom ; — 

17. 
Or along Sorrento's shore, 

Tasso's birth-place, to think o'er 

All his tears for Leonore ; — 

18. 
Or to see the sun decline 

To his Ischian bath of wine 

'Mid the hush'd sea hyaline ; — 

19. 
Or, perchance, still more to hear 

Music — to his soul so dear, 

Singing in her native sphere : 



154 ODE OX THE DEATH OF 

t 

20. 
Music that appears to be 

But the air of Italy, 

Voiced by her sky and sea. 

21, 

All these projects, howsoe'er 

Hopeful, healthful, wise or fair, 
Swallowed in this blank despair. 

22. 

He, the gentle, wise, and good, 

Manhood's loftiest aims pursued 
With a heart of maidenhood. 

23. 
Of a proud ancestral name, 

Still it was his boast to claim 

The sweet bard's reflected fame : 

24. 
The sweet bard, whose magic lays 

Could upon his shield emblaze 

Its most precious heraldries ( 10 ) : 



THE EARL OF BELFAST. 155 

25. 

Showing nobly thus how yet 

Genius can its diamond set 
In the proudest coronet. 

26, 
Oh ! his heart was pure as snow, 

Firm when winter winds might blow, 

Melting in affection's glow : 

27. 
Firm and fond with filial love 

To one gentle heart, above 

All the world ; though manhood strove 

28. 
With its feverish energy 

To supplant it,- still did he 

Love that fair maternity : 

29. 

Love her with the same sweet zest 

Here, where he lay down to rest 
As of old upon her breast : 



156 ODE OS" THE DEATH OP 

30. 

Leaving her in days to come 

A sweet memory to illume 

Her half-orphan' d twilight gloom. 

31. 

Not in pleasure's fairy bowers, 

Dallying with the deadly flowers, 
Passed with him the flying hours ; — 

32. 

No, he raised his voice to call 

^Mightiest minds around the wall 
Of the workman's wonder- hall ; — 

33. 
Raised his voice, and plied his pen, 

To enlarge the mental ken 

Of "his humbler fellow-men" ( n ): 

34. 

Or a soothing charm would find 

In his generous praise refined 
For some shy, secluded mind. 



THE EAEL OF BELFAST. 157 

35. 

His the homage of the heart 

Dearer to a child of art 

Far than fame's more prized part. 

36. 

But the bright career is o'er, 

Ah ! that heart can beat no more — 
Wail him, Erin, on thy shore. 

37. 

Wail him, thou, his native land, 

On thy lone lamenting strand, 
Bow the head, and wring the hand. 

38. 
Wail him, thou, that to thy cost, 

Many a hopeful son hast lost, 

Soonest those who loved thee most. 

39. 

Wail the taste, the toil severe, 

The rich harvest of each year, — 
All extinguished on this bier. 



158 ODE OX THE DEATH OF 

40. 

All ! not all, — dear shade forgive 
Such despair ! they yet shall live 
In the example that they give ; — 

41. 
Live amid the glow they wake 
In new hearts, for her dear sake, 
Her, whose own sad heart might break, 

42. 

If, like his, some generous soul 

Forced by love beyond control, 
Did not with her griefs condole, — 

43. 

Proud to be her child, although 

Still she totters to and fro 

'^"eath her lightened load of woe — 

44. 
Proud to wear upon his breast, 

Proud to blazon on his crest 

The poor Shamrock of the West. 



THE EAUL OF BELFAST. 159 

45. 

If the night has passed away, 
As we're told, and rosy day 
Paints the East with prophet-ray — 

46. 
Let the beam that puts to flight 

The long dark, bring forth to light 

Those who watched her through the night : 

47. 
Those whose heart she could engage 

In some studious hermitage, 

As upon a busier stage. 

48. 
And among the best and last 

Let its lingering light be cast 

Round thy dearest name — Belfast( 12 ).* 



1855. 



* See Xote. 



160 



DOLOKES. 



1. 

The moon of my soul is dark, Dolores, 
Dead and dark in my breast it lies, 

For I miss the heaven of thy smile, Dolores, 
And the light of thy brown bright eyes. 

2. 

The rose of my heart is gone, Dolores, 
Bud or blossom, in vain I seek ; 

For I miss the breath of thy lip, Dolores, 
And the blush of thy pearl-pale cheek. 



DOLOEES. 161 

3. 

The pulse of my heart is still, Dolores — 

Still and chill is its glowing tide ; 
For I miss the beating of thine, Dolores, 
In the vacant space by my side. 

V 

4. 

But the moon shall revisit my soul, Dolores, 

And the rose shall refresh my heart, 
When I meet thee again in heaven, Dolores, 
Never again to part. 



1852. 



162 



ECLIPSE ! 



The moon has fallen from out my sky, 

Fallen at the fall, and all is dark, 
The stars are away, and the light of day 

Glimmers afar, like a feeble spark ! — 
God ! will it ever break ? 

Will its gladsome glory beam ? 
And my trembling heart awake 

From this terrible night-mare dream ? 



1852. 



163 



TEUTH IN SONG. 



1. 

I cannot sing, I cannot write 

To show that I can write and sing — 

I cannot for a cause so slight 

Command my Ariel's dainty wing : — 

Not for the dreams of cultured youth, 
Nor praises of the lettered throng, 
Ah ! no, I string the pearls of song 

But only on the chords of truth: — 
m 2 



164 TKTJTH EST SOXG. 

2. 

And when the precious pearls are strung, 
What are their value, but to deck 

Some kindred forehead, or be hung 

Around the whiteness of some neck ? — 

Some neck ? some forehead ? — ah ! but one 
Would win or haply wear the chain, 
And now the fragments of the strain 

Lie broken round me — She is gone ! 

3. 

Gone from my home some weary hours, 
But never, never from my heart — 

Gone — like the memory of the showers 

To flowers long- drooping, Love, thou art : — 

truest friend — best of wives — 

Come soon ! my world, my queen, my crown, 
Then shall the pearls run ringing down 

The love-twined chords of both our lives. 

1852. 



165 



LOST AND FOUND. 



1. 
" Whither art thou gone, fair Una? — 
Una fair, the moon is gleaming ; 
Fear no mortal eye, fair Una, 

For the very flowers are dreaming, 
And the twinkling stars are closing 

Up their weary- watching glances — 
Warders on Heaven's walls reposing, 
While the glittering foe advances. 



166 LOST AND FOUND. 



Una, dear, my heart is throbbing, 

Full of throbbings without number ; 
Come ! the tired out streams are sobbing 

Like to children ere they slumber ; 
And the longing trees, inclining, 

Seek the earth's too distant bosom ; 
Sad fate ! that keeps from intertwining 

The earthly and the aerial blossom. 



3. 
' ' Una, dear, I've roamed the mountain, 
Round the furze and o'er the heather ; 
Una, dear, I' re sought the fountain 

Where we rested oft together, 
Ah ! the mountain now looks dreary, 

Dead, and dark, where no life liveth : 
Ah ! the fountain, to the weary, 
lSow y no more refreshment giveth. 



LOST AND FOUND . 167 

4. 

" Una, darling, dearest daughter, 

Beauty ever gave to Fancy — 
Spirit of the silver water, 

Nymph of Nature's necromancy ! — ■ 
Fair enchantress, fond magician, 

Is thine every spell- word spoken ? 
Hast thou closed thy fairy mission ? 

Is thy potent wand then broken ? 



5. 

" Una, dearest, deign to hear me, 

Fly no more my prayer resisting !"— 
Then a trembling voice came near me, 

Like a maiden to the trysting — 
Like a maiden's feet approaching 

Where the lover doth attend her ; 
Half forgiving, half reproaching, 

Came that voice, so shy and tender. 



168 LOST AXD FOUXD. 

6. 

" Must I blame thee, must I chide thee, 

Change to scorn the love I bore thee ? 
And the fondest heart beside thee, 

And the truest eyes before thee. 
And the kindest hands to press thee, 

And the instinctive sense to guide thee, 
And the purest lips to bless thee, 

What, dreamer ! is denied thee ? 

7. 
" Hast thou not the full fruition — 
Hast thou not the full enjoy ance, 
Of thy young heart's fond ambition, 

Free from every feared annoyance ? 
Thou hast sighed for truth and beauty — 
Hast thou failed then in thy wooing ? 
Dreamed of some ideal duty — 

Is there nought that waits thy doing? 



LOST A1S T D FOimD. 169 

8. 
" Is the world less bright or beauteous, 
That dear eyes behold it with thee ? 
Is the work of life less duteous, 

That thou art helped to do it, prithee ? 
Is the near rapture non-existent, 

Because thou dreamest an ideal? 
And canst thou for a glimmering distant 
Forget the blessings of the real ? 



" Down on thy knees, 0, doubting dreamer ! 

Down ! and repent thy heart' s misprision ; ' ' 
Scarce had I knelt in tears and tremor, 

When the scales fell from off my vision : 
There stood my human guardian angel, 

Given me by God's benign foreseeing, 
While from her lips came life's evangel, 

"Live! that each day complete thy being'" 



1852. 



170 



HOME SICKNESS. 



TO THE BAY OF DUBLIX. 

1. 
My native Bay, for many a year 
I've loved thee with a trembling fear, 
Lest thou, though dear and very dear, 

And beauteous as a vision, 
Shouldst have some rival far away — 
Some matchless wonder of a bay — 
TVhose sparkling waters ever play 

'Neath azure skies elysian. 






HOME SICKNESS. 171 

2. 

'Tis Love, inethought, blind Love that pours 
The rippling magic round these shores — 
For whatsoever Love adores 

Becomes what Love desireth : 
'Tis ignorance of aught beside 
That throws enchantment o'er the tide 
And makes my heart respond with pride 

To what mine eye admireth. 



3. 

And thus, unto our mutual loss, 
Whene'er I paced the sloping moss 
Of green Killiney, or across 

The intervening waters — 
Up Ho wth's- brown sides my feet would wend, 
To see thy sinuous bosom bend, 
Or view thine outstretch' d arms extend 

To clasp thine islet daughters ; 



172 HOME SICKNESS. 

4. 

Then would this spectre of my fear 
Beside me stand — How calm and clear 
Slept underneath, the green waves, near 

The tide-worn rocks' recesses ; 
Or when they woke, and leapt from land, 
Like startled sea-nymphs, hand in hand 
Seeking the southern silver strand 

With floating emerald tresses : 



It lay o'er all, a moral mist, 

Even on the hills, when evening kissed 

The granite peaks to amethyst, 

I felt its fatal shadow : 
It darkened o'er the brightest rills, 
It lowered upon the sunniest hills, 
And hid the winged song that fills 

The moorland and the meadow. 



HOME SICKNESS. 173 

6. 
But now that I have been to view 
All even Nature's self can do, 
And from Gaeta's arch of blue 

Borne many a fond memento ; 
And from each fair and famous scene, 
Where Beauty is, and Power hath been, 
Along the golden shores between 

Misenum and Sorrento : 

7. 
I can look proudly in thy face, 
Fair daughter of a hardier race, 
And feel thy winning, well-known grace, 

"Without my old misgiving ; 
And as I kneel upon thy strand, 
And kiss thy once unvalued hand, 
Proclaim earth holds no lovelier land, 

Where life is worth the living. 



1853. 



174 



YOUTH AND AGE. 



1. 

To give the blossom and the fruit 

The soft warm air that wraps them round, 
Oh ! think how long the toilsome root 

Must live and labour meath the ground. 

2. 

To send the river on its way, 

With ever deepening strength and force, 
Oh ! thin k how long 'twas let to play, 

A happy streamlet, near its source. 



175 



TO JUNE. 



WRITTEN AFTEE AN UNGENIAL MAT. 



1. 

I'll heed no more the Poet's lay — 

His false-fond song shall charm no more- 
My heart henceforth shall but adore 

The real, not the misnamed May. 

2. 
Too long I've knelt, and vainly hung 

My offerings round an empty name ; 

May ! thou canst not be the same 
As once thou wert when Earth was young. 



176 to jins T E. 

3. 

Thou canst not be the same to day — 

The Poet's dream — the Lover's joy : — 
The floral heaven of girl and boy 
Were heaven no more, if thou wert May. 

4. 
If thou wert May, then May is cold, 

And oh ! how changed from what she has been- 

Then barren boughs are bright with green, 

And leaden skies are glad with gold. 

5. 

And the dark clouds that veiled thy moon 

"Were silvery-threaded tissues bright, 
Looping the locks of amber light 
That float but on the airs of June. 

6. 

June ! thou art the real May ; 

Thy name is soft and sweet as hers, 
But a rich blood thy bosom stirs, 
Her marble cheek cannot display. 



TO JUNE. 177 

7. 
She cometh like a haughty girl, 

So conscious of her beauty's power, 

She now will wear nor gem nor flower 

Upon her pallid breast of pearl. 

■ 8. 
And her green silken summer dress, 

So simply flower' d in white and gold, 

She scorns to let our eyes behold, 

But hides through very wilfulness. 

9. 

Hides it 'neath ermined robes, which she 

Hath borrowed from some wintry queen, 
Instead of dancing on the green — 
A village maiden fair and free. 

10 
Oh ! we have spoiled her with our praise, 

And made her froward, false, and vain ; 

So that her cold blue eyes disdain 

To smile as in the earlier days. 



178 TO JUNE. 

11. 

Let her beware, — the world full soon 
Like me shall tearless turn away, 
And woo, instead of thine, May ! 

The brown, bright, joyous eyes of June. 

12. . 
June ! forgive the long delay, 

My heart's deceptive dream is o'er — 

Where I believe I will adore, 

Nor worship June, yet kneel to May. 

1855. 



179 



SUNNY DAYS IN WINTER. 



1. 

Summee is a glorious season 

Warm, and bright, and pleasant ; 

But the Past is not a reason 
To despise the Present. 

So while health can climb the mountain, 
And the log lights up the hall, 

There are sunny days in Winter, after all! 

2. 

Spring, no doubt, hath faded from us, 

Maiden-like in charms ; 
Summer, too, with all her promise, 

Perished in our arms. 
N 2 



180 SUNNY DATS IN WINTER. 

But the memory of the vanished, 

Whom our hearts recall, 
Maketh sunny days in Winter, after all ! 

3. 
True, there's scarce a flower that bloometh, 

All the best are dead ; 
But the wall-flower still perfumeth 

Yonder garden-bed. 
And the arbutus pearl-blossom' d 

Hangs its coral ball — 
There are sunny days in Winter, after all ! 

4. 

Summer trees are pretty, — very, 

And I love them well ; 
But, this holly's glistening berry, 

Xone of those excel. 
While the fir can warm the landscape, 

And the ivy clothes the wall, 
There are sunny days in Winter, after all ! 



SUKNT DAYS IN WINTEE. 181 

5. 

Sunny-hours in every season 

"Wait the innocent — 
Those who taste with love and reason 

What their God hath sent. 
Those who neither soar too highly, 

Nor too lowly fall, 
Feel the sunny days of Winter, after all ! 

6. 
Then, although our darling treasures 

Vanish from the heart ; 
Then, although our once-loved pleasures 

One by one depart ; 
Though the tomb looms in the distance, 

And the mourning pall, 
There is sunshine, and no Winter, after all ! 



1850. 



182 



THE BIRTH OF THE SPBIXG. 



1. 

Kathleex, my darling, I've dreamt such a dream, 
? Tis as hopeful and bright as the Summers first beam : 

1 dreamt that the World, like yourself, darling dear, 
Had presented a son to the happy New Year ! 
Like yourself, too, the poor mother suffered awhile, 
But like thine was the joy, at her baby's first smile, 
When the tender nurse, Nature, quick hastened to 

fling 
Her sun-mantle round, as she fondled The Speixg. 



THE BIRTH OF THE SPRING. 183 

2. 

Kathleen, 'twas strange how the elements all, 
With their friendly regards, condescended to call : 
The rough rains of Winter like summer-dews fell, 
And the Xorth-wind said, zephyr-like — " Is the 

World well?" 
And the streams ran quick-sparkling to tell o'er the 

Earth 
God's goodness to man in this mystical birth ; 
For a Son of this World, and an heir to the King 
Who rules over man, is this beautiful Spring ! 

3. 

Kathleen, methought, when the bright babe 

was born, 
More lovely than morning appeared the bright morn ; 
The birds sang more sweetly, the grass greener grew, 
And with buds and with blossoms the old trees 

looked new ; 



184 THE BIETH OP THE SPHING. 

And methought when the Priest of the Universe 

came — 
The Sun — in his vestments of glory and flame, 
He was seen, the warm rain- drops of April to fling 
On the brow of the babe, and baptize him The Spring ! 

4. 

Kathleen, dear Kathleen ! what treasures are 

piled 
In the mines of the Past for this wonderful Child ! 
The lore of the sages, the lays of the bards, 
Like a primer, the eye of this infant regards ; 
All the dearly-bought knowledge that cost life and 

limb, 
Without price, without peril, are offered to him ; 
And the blithe bee of Progress concealeth its sting, 
As it offers its sweets to this beautiful Spring ! 

5. 
Kathleen, they tell us of wonderful things, 

Of speed that surpasseth the fairy's fleet wings ; 



THE BERTH OF THE SPKING. 185 

How the lands of the world in communion are 

brought, 
And the slow march of speech is as rapid as thought. 
Think, think what an heir-loom the great world will 

he, 
With this wonderful wire 'neath the Earth and the 

Sea; 
When the snows and the sunshine together shall 

bring 
All the wealth of the world to the feet of the Spring. 

6. 

Oh ! Kathleen, but think of the birth-gifts of love, 
That The Mastee who lives in the Great House 

above 
Prepares for the poor child that's born on His land — 
Dear God ! they're the sweet flowers that fall from 

Thy hand, — 
The crocus, the primrose, the violet given 
Awhile, to make Earth the reflection of Heaven ; 



186 THE BIRTH OF THE SPKIXO. 

The brightness and lightness that round the world 

wing 
Are Thine, and are ours too, through thee, happy 

Spring ! 

7. 
Kathleen, dear Kathleen ! that dream is gone by, 
And I wake once again, but, thank Grod ! thou art by ; 
And the land that we love looks as bright in the 

beam, 
Just as if my sweet dream was not all out a dream, 
The spring-tide of Nature its blessing imparts — 
Let the spring-tide of Hope send its pulse through 

our hearts ; 
Let us feel 'tis a mother, to whose breast we cling, 
And a brother we hail, when we welcome the Spring. 

1850. 



187 



ALL FOOLS' DAY. 



1. 
The Sun called a beautiful Beam, that was playing 

At the door of his golden-wall' d palace on high ; 
And he bade him be off, without any delaying, 

To a fast-fleeting Cloud on the verge of the sky : 
" You will give him this letter," said roguish Apollo 

(While a sly little twinkle contracted his eye), 
"With my royal regards; and be sure th^t you 
follow 

Whatsoever his Highness may send in reply." 



188 ALL fools' day. 

2. 

The Beam heard the order, hut heing no novice, 

Took it coolly, of course — nor in this was he 
wrong — 
But was forced (heing a clerk in Apollo's post- 
office) 
To declare (what a hounce !) that he wouldn't he 
long; 
So he went home and dress' d — gave his heard an 
elision — 
Put his scarlet coat on, nicely edged with gold 
lace; 
And thus heing equipped, with a postman's pre- 
cision, 
He prepared to set out on his nehulous race. 

3. 

Off he posted at last, hut just outside the portals 

He lit on Earth's high-soaring hird in the dark( 13 ) ; 
So he tarried a little, like many frail mortals, 
Who, when sent on an errand, first go on a lark ; 



ALL fools' lay. 189 

But he broke from the bird — reach' d the cloud in a 
minute — 
Gave the letter and all, as Apollo ordained ; 
But the Sun's correspondent, on looking within it, 
Found, "Send the fool farther," was all it con- 
tained. 

4. 
The Cloud, who was up to all mystification, 

Quite a humorist, saw the intent of the Sun ; 
And was ever too airy — though lofty his station — 

To spoil the least taste of the prospect of fun ; 
So he hemm'd, and he haw'd. — took a roll of pure 
vapour, 
Which the light from the beam made as bright as 
could be, 
(Like a sheet of the whitest cream golden-edg'd 
paper), 
And wrote a few words, superscribed, "To the 
Sea." 



190 ALL FOOLS' DA.Y. 

5. 

"My dear Beam," or "dear Kay" ('twas thus coolly 

he hailed him), 
' ' Pray take down to Neptune this letter from me, 
For the person you seek — though I lately re-galed 

him — 
Now tries a new airing, and dwells by the sea." 
So our Mercury hastened away through the ether, 
The bright face of Thetis to gladden and greet ; 
And he plunged in the water a few feet beneath 
her, 
Just to get a sly peep at her beautiful feet. 

6. 
To Neptune the letter was brought for inspection — 
But the god, though a deep one, was still rather 
green; 
So he took a few moments of steady reflection. 

Ere he wholly made out what the missive could 
mean : 



ALL FOOLS' DAY. 191 

But the date (it was " April the first") came to save 
it 
Prom all fear of mistake ; so he took pen in hand, 
And, transcribing the cruel entreaty, he gave it 
To our travelled-tired friend, and said, "Bring it 
to Land." 

7. 
To Land went the Sunbeam, which scarcely received 
it, 
When it sent it, post-haste, back again to the Sea; 
The Sea's hypocritical calmness deceived it, 

And sent it once more to the Land on the lea ; — 
From the Land to the Lake — from the Lakes to the 
Fountains — 
From the Fountains and Streams to the Hills' azure 
crest, 
'Till, at last, a tall Peak on the top of the mountains, 
Sent it back to the Cloud in the now golden west. 



192 ALL FOOLS' DAT. 

8. 

He saw the whole trick, by the way he was greeted 
Ey the Sun's laughing face, which all purple ap- 
pears ; 
Then, amused, yet annoyed at the way he was treated, 
He first laughed at thejoJce, and then burst into tears. 
It is thus that this day of mistakes and surprises, 
"When fools write on foolscap, and wear it the 
while, 
This gay saturnalia for ever arises 

'Mid the shower and the sunshine, the tear and the 
smile. 

1853. 



193 



JAGUAR Y. 

A FRAGMENT. 

1. 

In the Palace of the Sun, 

Par away, far away, 
In the golden-paven city 

Of the Day, bright Day, 
Whose dazzling turrets rise 
O'er the blue walls of the skies 

Like the peaks k 
Of the icy Himalay 

When the ray 
Of the rosy sunrise breaks 

From the East. 
o 



194 JANrAHY. 

2, 

To a feast 
In the Palace of the Sun 
In the city of the Day 

On this morn, 
Twelve Pilgrims who were born 
Each the brother of the other, 
Of one father and one mother, 

Take their way : — 
But once in all the year 

They are here, 
In the palace of their sire, 
In the banquet-hall of fire, 

Eonnd the board, 
Like the twelve around the Lord 

They appear :— 

3. 

The first is stern and old, 
His hands are numb and cold, 



195 



The snowy beard is frozen on his chin, 

And within 
The bine channels of his veins 
On his forehead and his face 

You can trace, 

You can feel 
The dark and livid stains 
Of the stagnant blood confined 

And entwined, 
Like wires of azure steel 
Through an alabaster vase. 

4. 

On his breast lies frozen snow, 

But below 

You may know 
The quick blood runs red and warm 

Through his form. 
Tor there the old man wears 
The sweet symbol that appears 

In the desolatest hour 
o 2 



196 JAXUAET. 

That the winter- world doth know, 
"When a bud is seen to blow 

In its lightness and its whiteness, 
Its purity and brightness, 
As if four flakes of snow 
Were united in one flower. 

1851. 



197 



TO MARY, FOUETEEJST MONTHS OLD. 



1. 

Little darling daughter mine, 
Wilt thou be my Valentine ? 
"Wilt thou give to me a part 
Of thy little fluttering heart ? 
Give thy laughter without words, 
Musical as song of birds — 
Give thy twinkling fingers' play 
And thine every sportive way, 



198 TO MARY, FOrRTEEK MOXTHS OLD. 

Give thy look of glad surprise, 
And the witchery of thine eyes, 
Give the bounding of thy feet, 
And thy liberal kisses sweet — 
Give thy nods and mute commands, 
And the clapping of thy hands — 
Give thy rapture and good-will, 
When upon the v window-sill 
For the expected feast of crumbs 
Every morn the redbreast comes — 
Canst thou these to me resign? — 
Wilt thou be my Valentine? — 



TO MARY, FOURTEEN MONTHS OLD. 199 



II. 

Darling, thy mother sends to thee 
Blessings and love from her and me, 
And as to years thy brief months glide, 
Be, as thon art, our joy and pride ; 
Cheer the kind hearts that late were sad, 
And with thy gladness make them glad; 
Fill them with hope for many a year, 
And wake the smile, and chase the tear ; 
As thou art now, be ever thus, 
A boon from God, to them and us. 

February 14, 1851. 



200 



S ]S T jST e t 



Two golden links are added to the chain, 

Dear Love, that binds our separate lives in one, 
Two short-lived radiant children of the Sun, 
Two years, brief years of mingled light and rain, 

Have passed away, since thou and I begun 
Our married life : and smiling Time, again, 
Life's ductile ore with cheerful hand hath ta'en 
To add one wonder more to what he hath done. 

The Past, the Present, — Memories of the brain, 
And the heart's living joys their bright course run; — 
They have their links : and has the future none 
Whereby to cling to 'mid its vast inane ? 

Fear not, dear Love, the fear were worse than vain, 
Have we not two — a Daughter and a Son ? 

January, 1851. 



201 



SONNET, 

WRITTEN IN THE BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED VOLUME, 
"CHRISTMAS WITH THE POETS." 



Happy 'twill be upon some future day, 

Some welcome winter day of frost and snow. 
When with, the cold the Sun's round face shall glow 
Cheerful and ruddy as a boy's at play : — 

If in some window-seat that o'er the Bay 

Peeps calmly out, and o'er the rocks below — 
Some modest oriel round whose casements grow 
The pyracantha's crimson berries gay, — 

If we behold our children's eyes display 

Delighted wonder, and their glad looks show 

How they would love with rapid feet to go 

O'er each white field and pictured snow- fill' d way, 

That in this book make Winter smile like Hay, 
And Christmas gleam like Christmas long ago. 

February, 1851. 



202 



D U T Y. 



As the hardy oat is growing, 

Howsoe'er the wind may blow ; 
As the untired stream is flowing, 

"Whether shines the sun or no : — 
Thus, though storm- winds rage about it, 

Should the strong plant, Duty, grow — 
Thus, with beauty or without it, 

Should the stream of Being flow. 



20c 



OED EE. 

A woed went forth upon Creation's day, 

At which the void infinitude was filled 

With life and light. Where horrid Chaos reigned 

In dark confusion, orbed Oedee rose, 

And with the silent majesty of strength 

Took up the sceptre of a thousand worlds, 

And ruled by right divine the radiant realms. 

Where all was blank vacuity, or worse, 

Monstrous Disorder — fair material Form 

Eose wondering from the vacant wastes of Space ; 

And as each world beheld its sister world, 

So calm, so beautiful, so full of light, 

Walking in gladness through the halls of heaven, 

Like a fair daughter in her father's house, — 



204 OEDEE. 

Its heart yearned towards her, and its trembling feet 
Turned in pursuit ; and its great eager eyes 
Followed her ever down the eternal day. 
Bound golden suns the silver planets roll'd, 
Round silver planets circled moons of pearl, 
Round pearly moons, the roses of the sky, 
(Eve-crimsoned clouds) stood wondering, till their 

cheeks 
Grew pale with passion, and then dark with pain ; 
As sank the moons behind the unheeding hills ! 

1855, 



NOTES. 



NOTES. 



(0 Page 31. 

Above the lost Alastor's tomb. 

Shelley, speaking of the place in Eome where he himself is 
buried, says: — "The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, 
covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one 
in love with death, to think that one should be bnried in so sweet 
a place." — Preface to Adonais. 

Page 32. 

Or the ttv-in-poefs; he who sings — 
" A thing of beauty never dies." 

Keats, who is also buried in the same (or rather the adjoining) 
cemetery. The allusion is to the well-known line with which 
Endymion commences — 

6i A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." 

(3) Page 74. 

From rock to rock, through cloven scalp. 

Scalp, a rocky cleft between mountains, such as "The Scalp," 
county of Wicklow. 



208 KOTES. 

(*) Page 112. 

Cythna, Genevieve, and Nea. 
See the poems of Shelley, Coleridge, and Moore. 

(s) Page 11.3. 
" The Eternal Pilgrim's" dream. 
Byron. So called by Shelley in the Adonais. 

(<) Page 129. 

When, from the top of Teller doivn 
We saw the sun descend. 

Mount Pelier, county of Dublin, overlooking Eathfarnham 
and, more remotely, Dundrum. To a brief residence near the 
latter village the " Recollections" recorded in this poem are to be 
referred. 

.(») Page 135. 

And how the firm Fernando died. 

Calderon's " El Principe Constante," translated in the author's 
" Dramas of Calderon." 2 vols. London. 1853. 

(9) Page 137. 
Or listen for the ivhip-poor-will. 

I do not know the bird to -which I have given this Indian 
name. It, however, imitated its note quite distinctly. 

(io) Page 154. 

Could upon his shield emblaze 
Its most precious heraldries. 

"If there is one heir-loom I prize more than another,"" said 
Lord Belfast, "it is the dedication of the 'Irish Melodies ' to an 



NOTES. 209 

ancestress of mine, and the beautiful letter on music which Moore 
addressed to the same Lady Donegal." — Lectures \on the Poets and 
Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. By the Earl of Belfast. 
London: Longmans. 1852. 

(ii) Page 156. 
To enlarge the mental hen 
Of " his humbler fellow -men" 

The latter words are quoted from the Earl of Belfast's Dedica- 
tion of his Lectures to the Earl of Carlisle. 

(i2) Page 159. 
Round thy dearest name — Belfast. 

The rare virtues and accomplishments of this lamented young 
nobleman ; his active exertions in promoting and encouraging a 
taste for literature and art, particularly in the town from which 
he derived his title ; and his early death in a foreign land, awa- 
kened so many feelings of sorrow and respect for his memory, 
and of sympathy with those who in a nearer and dearer relation 
had lost him, that it was found impossible to avoid giving them ex- 
pression in some conspicuous and lasting form. A public statue 
was determined on, and the w x ork was intrusted to Mr. Macdowall, 
than whom, as well from his distinguished position as an artist, 
as from his connexion with Belfast, no more appropriate selection 
could have been made. The statue, which fully sustained Mr. 
Macdowall's high reputation, was publicly inaugurated at Belfast 
on November 1, 1855, by His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of 
Ireland, the Earl of Carlisle. Some weeks previous to this cere- 
mony, the Author had the honour of receiving from the Marchio- 
ness of Donegal a request that he (as an Irish writer for whose 
poetical efforts her Ladyship was kind enough to say her dear son 
had an especial liking) would write some lines appropriate to the 
P 



210 NOTES, 

occasion. The Author, who had long wished for some opportunity 
of paying his tribute of regret and gratitude to the memory of 
one whose premature death he had reason to consider not only a 
public loss, but (to him) a private calamity, at once acquiesced, 
and these lines were written with a rapidity which at least proved 
the genuine nature of the feelings which originated them. The 
Author having resided at Naples a short time previous to the Earl 
of Belfast's arrival and death there, will account for the Italian 
colouring which pervades the earlier portion of the Poem. 

The Sonnets printed at the commencement of the Ode were 
written subsequent to the public delivery of the Ode itself in 
Belfast. 

A few months before the lamented death of the Earl of Belfast, 
the author had the gratification of receiving from him the follow- 
ing letter, which is now published for the first time. Whatever 
difference of opinion there may be as to the literary judgment 
evinced by his Lordship in this particular instance, there can be 
none of the generosity and good-heartedness which dictated so 
kind and encouraging a communication : — 

" 29, St. James's-stkeet, London, 
"September 17, 1852. 
" Sir, — In order to obtain permission to publish some words 
of yours in connexion with some music which I have adapted to 
them, I believe it were sufficient to apply to the publisher of your 
volume of Poems : but I cannot let pass an opportunity so apt of 
expressing to you the deep sense of admiration with which it has 
inspired me. It is not only yourself that I would congratulate 
upon the possession of so truly poetical a genius — it is rather our 
country that deserves gratulations upon her good fortune, in 
having given birth to one who seems likely and able to reawaken 
that strain of poesy (so purely her own) which has slept since the 
silence of Moore. 



211 



" One who can combine, as you have done, the stirring energy 
which characterizes your Ballads with that sweet plaintiveness 
that lends such a charm to such poems as ' Summer Longings,' 
'A Lament,' 'Devotion,' &c, &c, cannot but play a part, if he 
will, in his country's destiny. 

" The first of these is the one which has inspired me with a 
few bars of simple music. I am well aware that it possesses ' a 
music of its own — a music far beyond all minstrels' playing.' 
Yet should I feel gratified at seeing my name coupled, in how- 
ever humble a capacity, on the title with that of one of my most 
gifted countrymen. 

"I am, Sir, yours 

" Obediently and admiringly, 

" Belfast. 

"D. F. Mac Carthy, Esq." 

(is) Page 188. 

He lit on the high-soaring bird in the dark. 

" Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings," &c. 

Cymbeline. 



[" The Bridal of the Year," in the first part of this Volume, 
has already appeared in a Collection of the Author's Poems. It 
has been several times reprinted elsewhere ; and is now united 
with those other and later Poems of the Fancy, which have had 
in view the same delicate and subjective delineation of Nature.] 



Dublin.: Printed at the University Press, by M. H. Gill, 



MAC CARTHY'S CALDERON. 
Recently published, in 2 vols. fcap. Svo. 

DRAMAS OF CALDERON: 

<Jfrmtt % JJganislL 

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE 

BY 

DENIS FLORENCE MAC CARTHY, 

AUTHOR OF u THE BELL-FOUNDER," U UNDERGLIMPSES," ETC. 



©ritual iHotto, 

From The Dublin Review. 

"How many of our readers have, from their youth upwards, heard 
of the name of Calderon -with reverence, — have associated him, in 
their thoughts, even with the greatness of Shakspeare, — yet have 
not read one line of the poet to whom they have undoubtedly assigned 
so high a place ; and indeed know nothing of him, unless it be from 
Frederick Schlegel's masterly analysis, or, perhaps, from a few bril- 
liant extracts. To these, and to all lovers of genuine poetry, Mr. 
Mac Carthy's book will be a great acquisition; for he has expressed to 
us the works of this great poet as only a poet could have done : he 
has translated them with freedom and spirit, yet has conscientiously, 
and with great care and nice perception, preserved all the characte- 
ristics of his author. We feel, while reading these Dramas, that they 
have the spirit of another age and another land ; but there is no ob- 
scuring veil between the poet's mind and ours. We can enjoy almost 
in perfection Calderon's noble strain of thought, and his rich poetic 
fancy, antique, original, and untrammelled. Henceforward, these 
beautiful poems belong to us : they will form part of our literature ; 
and we are thankful to Mr. Mac Carthy for having made us so well ac- 
quainted with a poet, the delight and glory of old Spain, and who well 



IT AC CAETHY S CALDEEOX. 



deserves not merely to receive the meed of honour, but also the tribute 
of appreciation and enjoyment." 



From The Morning Chronicle. 

" Mr. Mac Carthy deserves every praise for his spirited attempt to 
make known to the English public a writer of such high and various 
excellencies. His version of the six Plays selected by him has many 
merits, not the least of which is his preservation of the irregular 
trochaic metres (short lines of four or five feet generally) of the origi- 
nal. It is impossible to transfer to English — at least to anything 
like the same extent to which it is adopted by the Spanish poets — 
the assonance or imperfect rhyme: but Mr. Mac Carthy's full- rhymed 
passages are frequently rendered with the most felicitous and graceful 

effect Our extracts have, we hope, done justice to the 

beauties of Mr. Mac Carthy's version, which may be recommended to 
English readers as the best possible introduction to one of the greatest 
poets of Southern Europe." 



From Tait's Magaztne. 

" We feel grateful to Mr. Mac Carthy for the really splendid addition 
to our limited stock of Spanish poetry which his present volumes 
supply. A poet of no mean order himself, he may claim as a trans- 
lator to stand among those of the highest rank ; and we may pay him 
the just tribute of declaring, that no man who has translated so much 
from his admired author has translated so well ; — in fact, his transla- 
tion is something more than translation in the common acceptance of 
the term. He gives us not merely the true sense and spirit of the 
original, but the very cadence, accent, and ring and tune, so to speak, 
of the Spaniard; and we seem to be reading Spanish, not English, 
as we turn over page after page, so similar is the rhythm to that of 
the original." 

From The Dublin University Magazine. 

" Calderon's dramas are all lyrical, rhymed or unrhymed, accor- 
ding to the excitement of the scene : thus, in passionate passages, the 



MAC CAETHY S CALDEEOX. 6 

verse always rises into perfect rhyme. The metre is generally 
trochaic, of eight or seven feet, but a thousand variations of measure 
are to be met with, to imitate which must be the torture and despair 
of any translator. Mr. Mac Carthy, however, has endeavoured to 
render into English all the metrical forms of the original ; and none 
but a Spanish student can comprehend the immense labour, the 
amoimt of poetic skill, the great mastery of language, the many 
high natural gifts, requisite to produce even an imitation such as we 
have received from him." 

From The Athenaeum. 

" If Calderon can ever be made popular here, it must be in the 
manner generally adopted by Mr. Mac Carthy in the specimens, six in 
number, which are here translated, preserving, namely, the metrical 
form, which is one of the characteristics of the old Spanish drama. 
This medium, through which it partakes of the lyrical character, is 
no accident of style ; but an essential property of that remarkable 
creation of a poetic age — remarkable, because while the drama so 
adorned was entirely the offspring of popular impulse, in opposition 
to many rigorous attempts in favour of classical methods, it was at 
the same time raised above the tone of common expression by the 
rhythmical mode which it assumed, in a manner decisive of its ideal 
tendency. It thus displays a combination rare in this kind of poetry : 
the spirit of an untutored will, embodied in a form the romantic ex- 
pression of which might seem only congenial to choice and delicate 
fancies 

u In conclusion, what has now been said of Calderon, and of the 
stage which he adorned, as well as of the praise justly due to parts of 
Mr. Mac Carthy 's version, will at least serve to commend these volumes 
to curious lovers of poetry." 

From Petites Affiches de Londres. 

" Les ecrivains modernes, pour la plupart, ont cherche a compen- 

ser par la correction, par l'urbanite, par les gracieuses minuties de 

leur style, ce qui leur manque en verve, en genie, en puissance de 

creation. Dans le repos du cabinet, ils travaillent longtemps a 



3IAC CAETHY S CALDEEOX. 



echauffer leur esprit, plus souvent encore ils s'agenouilient devant la 
statue de Tart pour le supplier de reraplacer la nature, et leurs ecrits 
froids, sans enthousiasme, brillent toujours comme une lampe, rnais 
jamais comme un soleil. Les ecrivains anciens au contraire, ceux 
qui ont pour ainsi dire habille les premiers la pensee humaine, tantot 
en beaux vers, tantot en sentences d'une energie sauvage, n'ont que 
fort peu de ce style petite maitresse qui charme l'oreille s'il n'emeut 
le coeur ; aussi savons nous gre, surtout a un auteur original, de faire 
revivre dans la langue poetique de son pays les grands geuies qui 
vecurent dans des pays divers sous les noms de Shakespeare, Corneille, 
Calderon, Schiller ; et si le traducteur, poete lui-meme, sait dans de 
beaux vers, comme F auteur de la presente traduction de Calderon, 
conserver le rhytme de 1'original, il identitie ainsi ses lecteurs nonseule- 
ment aux grandes pensees de Tauteur traduit, mais pour ainsi a dire 
sa forme, a son genie particulier, a sa maniere d'etre ; il nous fait trouver 
en un mot, comme M. Macarthy, dans des vers anglais par exemple, 
le charme de cette poesie espagnole si remarquable dans Calderon, de 
cette poesie, dont les pleurs, au dire de Schlegel, refletent Timage 
des cieux comme la rosee epandue sur la fleur reflete le soleil. M. 
Macarthy en publiant les deux volumes qui posent devant nous a 
done rendu un immense service aux lettres anglaises ; car jusqu'a ce 
jour, a l 1 exception dequelques fragments d' Elmagico prodigioso tra- 
duits en grand poete qu'il etait, par Shelley, nous n'avions rien qui 
put nous donner une idee du genie de Calderon ; les quelques drames, 
traduits de cet auteur et publics dans divers magazines etant a peu 
pres lettre morte pour la generalite des lecteurs. Le nouvel ceuvre 
de M. Macarthy nous donne six des principaux ouvrages de 1' auteur 
espagnol, de Calderon, apprecie bien au-dessous de sa valeur reelle en 
Angleterre, mieux compris en France, et Tobjet de l'admiration des 
ecrivains allemands, qui ne craignent pas, et non pas sans raison 
selon nous, de placer Calderon de pair avec Shakespeare. Nous pou- 
vons assurer quil est dans el Principe constants et dans el Purgato- 
rio de san Patricio, des scenes entierement shake >speariennes, dans la 
plus grande etendue qu'on puisse donner a cette epithete gigan- 
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plain; 12s. coloured. 

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John Gilpin; Cowper's Humor- 
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CAPTAIN REID'S BOOKS OF ADVENTURE FOR BOYS. 

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The Desert Home ; or, English Family Bobinson. "With 

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The Boyhood of Great Men as an Example to Youth. 
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Footprints of Famous Men ; or, Biography for Boys. 
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Boy Princes. By John G. Edgab. "With Illustrations 
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History for Boys ; or, Annals of the Nations of Modern 
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Thomas, 5s. cloth gilt. 

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Grimm's Household Stories. All the most Popular 

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Sidney Grey : A Tale of School Life. Ey the Author of 
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Soilthey'S Life Of Nelson. Einely-illustrated Edition, 
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Memorable Women ; the Story of their Lives. Ey Mrs. 
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The Boat and the Caravan : A Family Tour in Egypt 

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Emma de LissaUj or, Memoirs of a Converted Jewess. 

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Miriam and Rosette ; or, The Twin Sisters ; A Jewish 
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May YOU Like It : A Series of Tales and Sketches. By 
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The Whaleman's Adventures in the Southern Ocean. 

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Flowers Of Fable (180 Engrav- 
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Figures of Pun; Two Parts 

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The Well-bred Doll, Cuts, cloth, Is. 
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MINIATUEE CLASSICS. 



A Choice Collection of Standard Works, elegantly 

printed, illustrated with Frontispieces, and published at extremely 
low prices, with a view to extensive circulation. The binding is 
executed in a superior manner, and very tastefully ornamented. 

Any -work may be purchased separately. The prices per volume are — 

Ornamented cloth, gilt edges . . . . Is. 6d. 

Prettily bound in silk 2s. Od. 

Very handsome in morocco 3s. Od. 

Those to which a star is prefixed, being much thicker than the others, are 6d. per yoL extra. 



Bacon's Essays. 

Beattie' s Minstrel. 

Channing's Essays. Two vols. 

Chapone's Letters on the Mind. 

Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, &c. 
*Cowper's Poems. Two vols. 

Elizabeth ; or, the Exiles of Siberia. 

Falconer's Shipwreck. 

Fenelon's Reflections. 
*Gems of Anecdote. 
♦Gems of Wit and Humour. 
*Gems from American Poets. 
*Gems from Shakspeare. 
*Gems of American "Wit. 
♦Gems of British Poets— 

1st Series Chaucer, to Goldsmith. 
2nd ,, Ealconer to Campbell. 
3rd ,, Living Authors. 
4th „ Sacred. 
♦Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. 

Goldsmith's Essays. 

Goldsmith' s Poetical Works., 

Gray's Poetical Works. 

Guide to Domestic Happiness. 

Gregory's Legacy to his Daughters. 
♦Hamilton's Cottagers of Glenburnie. 



♦Hamilton's Letters on Education. 2 v. 

Lamb's Tales from Shakspeare. Two 
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Lamb's Rosamund Gray. 
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Johnson's Rasselas. 

Lewis's Tales of Wonder. 

Mason on Self-knowledge. 

Milton's Paradise Lost. Two Vols. 
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More's Practical Piety. Two Vols. 
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Talbot's Reflections and Essays. 

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Warwick's Spare Minutes. 

Young's Night Thoughts. Two Vols. 



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Drawing Book for 1847. 

Nos. Is. 6d.; or cloth, 10s. 6d. 



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Elementary Drawing Book 

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MONS. JULIEN. 
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Julien, Professor of Drawing in the 
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byT. Fairland. Six Numbers, 2s. 
each ; or cloth, 14s. 

The Human Figure: A Series 

of Progressive Studies, by Mons. 
Julien. With Instructions. Six Nos. 
2s. each ; or cloth, 14s. 



GEORGE CHILDS. 
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Little Sketch Book: Easy 

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English Landscape Scenery: 

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Barraud's Studies of Animals. Six Nos. 3s. ; coloured, 5s. 
Cooper's (T. S.) Drawing Book of Animals. Eight Nos. Is. each; bound, 10s. 6d. 
Dibdin's Easy Drawing Book, and Guide to Sketching. Six Nos. 2s. 6d. ; 

bound, 18s. 
Dibdins Lessons in Water Colours. Four Nos. 4s. 
Ford's Easy Lessons in .Landscape. Eight Nos. 9d. ; cloth, 7s. 6d. 
Greenwood's Studies of Trees. Six Nos. Is. ; cloth, 7s. 6d. 
Grundy's Shipping and Craft. Six Nos. Is. ; cloth, 7s. 6d. 
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Rawlins's Elementary Perspective. Royal 4to, sewed, 4s. 
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Authors Of England: Portraits of the Principal Literary Characters, 
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Royal 4to, cloth gilt, published at 31s. 6d. ; reduced to 10s. 6d. 

The Georgian Era: Modern British Biography since the reign of 
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The Nohle Science— Fox-hunting. By F. P. Delme Radcmffe, 

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Museum of Painting and Sculpture: A Collection of the 

principal Pictures, Statues, and Bas-reliefs in the Public and Private 
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Originally published at £17 17s. ; reduced to £4 14s. 6d. 

Travels in S. E. Asia, Malaya, Burmah, and Hindustan. 

By the Rev. H. Malcolm. 2 vols. Svo, published at 16s. ; reduced to 8s. 

Puckle's Club ; or, a Grey Cap for a Green Head. Many first-rate 
Wood Engravings, cloth. Published at 7s. 6d. ; reduced to 2s. 6d. 

Martin's Illustrations of the Bible ; consisting of Twenty 

large and maenificent Plates, designed and engraved by John Martin, 
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INDEX. 



PAGE 

Adalbert's (Prince) Travels ... 11 

Acting Charades 13 

Andrews' Flower Painting ... 29 

Anniversary, The . , .... 14 

Architectural Works 3 

Arnold's (Edwin) Poems .... 12 

Art of Painting Restored .... 7 

Authors of England 30 

Beattie and Collins 5 

Bertie's Indestructible Books . . 27 

Bible Gallery 4 

Women of the 4 

Bingley's Tales 26 

Biographical Works 9 

Bloxam's Gothic Architecture . . 9 

Blunt's Beauty of the Heavens . . 6 

Boat (The) and the Caravan . . . 11 

Bond's History of England ... 26 

Book of Beauty 3 

the Months 19 

Boswell's Johnson 20 

Boyhood of Great Men 10 

Boy Princes . . 10 

Boy's Own Book 24 

Treasury > . 26 

Brandon's Architectural Works . 8 

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress . . 2 

Burnet on Painting 7 

's Essays 7 

Life of Turner .... 3 

Rembrandt ... 3 

Butterfly (Bachelor) 17 

Byron Gallery ........ 4 

Byron Illustrated 2 

Canadian Life, Sketches of ... 19 

Capern's Poems 12 

Chapman's Elements of Art ... 7 

Cheever's Whaleman' s Adventures . 25 

Childs' Drawing Books 29 

■ First Lesson Book .... 26 

Christian Graces in Olden Time . 2 

Christian Melville 13 

Christmas with the Poets .... 1 

Comic Works . 17 

Latin Grammar 18 

Almanack 17 

Comical Creatures from Wurtem- 

burg «... 26 

People 26 

Story Books 26 

Cooke's Rome 4 

Cooper's (T. S.) Animals .... 29 

Court Album 3 

Cowper's Poems 5, 20, 28 

Cracker Bon -Bon for Christmas . . 13 

Crosland's Memorable Women . . 10 



Cruikshank's (Geo.) Works 

Fairy Library 

Dale's Poems . , 

De StaeTs (Mad.) Life and Times 
Dictionaries , . . 
Domestic Architecture 

Hints . . 

Drawing Books . . 
Copy Books 



Edgar's Biography for Boys 

Boyhood of Great Men 

History for Boys 

Boy Princes 

Emma de Lissau . . . 
Etiquette for the Ladies 

Gentlemen 



of Courtship 



Ettys Life, by Gilchrist . 
Euclid, Symbolical . . . 

Floral Fancies 

Flora's Gems 

Footprints of Famous Men 
Forster's Pocket Peerage . 
Fountain of Living Waters 
Fox-hunting, Noble Science of 
French Domesiic Cookery . 

Dictionary, Miniatur* 

Funny Books 

Games for Christmas . . 
Gautier's Constantinople of To-day, 
Gavarni in London . . . 
Georgian Era (The) . . . 
Glossary of Architecture . 
Goldsmith's Traveller Illustrated 
Works 



Graces, Gallery of the . . 
Grimm's Household Stories 
Guizot's Young Student . 
Gutch's Scientific Pocket Book 
Hannay's Satire and Satirists 
Happy Home (The) . . 
Harding's Drawing Books 

Sketches at Home 

Harry's Ladder to Learning 

Book of Poetry . . 

Heroes of Asgard . . . 
Heroines of Shakspeare . 
Hervey's Meditations . . 
Home Lesson Books . . 

Story Books . . . 

Hood's Epping Hunt . . 

Eugene Aram . . 

Humphreys' British Coins . 
Introd. to Gothic Architecture 
Jobnson's Lives of the Poets 
Julien's Studies of Heads . 



PAGE 

17 

26 
12 

9 
16 

9 
19 
29 
29 
10 
10 



23 
24 
20 
20 
20 

9 

19 
19 

5 
10 
21 
19 
30 
19 
16 
25 
13 
11 
14 
30 



1 
20 

4 

24 
25 
15 
20 
19 
7,29 

u 
27 
27 
24 



20 
27 
27 
15 
14 



20 
29 



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PAGE 

Julien's Human Figure .... 29 

Juvenile Books 22 

Keepsake (The) 3 

Kendall's Travels . 11 

King's Interest Tables 19 

Landscape Painters of England . 3 

Language of Flowers 5 

Laurel and Lyre 21 

Lectures on the Great Exhibition . 15 

Gold , 15 

Le Keux's Cambridge 6 

Life's Lessons 19 

Life of Christ 26 

Little Marys Books 27 

Treasury 27 

Lesson Book ... 27 

Boy's Own Book 24 

London Anecdotes 20 

Longfellow's Poems 2, 12 

Hyperion 2 

Golden Legend . . 2, 12 

Prose Works ... 13 

Song of Hiawatha . . 12 

Mackay's (Charles) Egeria ... 12 

Town Lyrics . 12 

Malcolm's Travels in Hindustan . 30 
Manuals of Instruction, &c. . . .21 

Martin's (John) Bible 30 

Massey's (G.) Babe Christabel 
Craigcrook Castle . 



12 
12 

Mayhews Greatest Plague ... 13 

Acting Charades ... 13 

Magic of Industry . . 14 

Sandboys' Adventures , 14 

Toothache 15 

Peasant Boy Philosopher 23 

Wonders of Science . .23 

Men of the Time 10 

Mia and Charlie 24 

Miller's (T.) Poems for Children . 26 

Pictures of Country 

Life 5 

Milton's Poetical Works .... 5 

— L'Allegro Illustrated . . 1 

Miniature Classics ...... 28 

Miriam and Rosette 25 

Museum of Painting and Sculpture 30 

Musgrave's Ramble in Normandy . 11 

Ogleby's Adventures 17 

Oldbuck's Adventures 17 

Painting, Drawing, &c, Works on 7 

Parlour Magic 25 

Panoramic View of Palestine . . 20 

Pearls of the East 6 

Pellatt on Glass Making .... 4 

Pentamerone (The) 26 

Pictorial Bible History 26 

Playmate (The) ..... . . 27 

Poetry of Flowers 21 



Poetry of the Sentiments 
the Year 



PAGE 
. 21 



Prout's (Sam.) Microcosm, &c. . 

Puckle's Club 

Raifaelle-s Cartoons 

Reids (Capt. M.) Desert Home . 



Boy Hunters 

— Young Voyageurs 

Forest Exiles . . 

Bush-Boys . . . 

■ Young Yagers . 

Rembrandt and his Works ... 

Reynard the Fox 25 

Rhymes and Roundelayes ... 2 

Rhine, Illustrated by B. Foster . . 1 

Ritchie's (L.) Wearyfoot Common . 13 

Robinson Crusoe 14 

Romance of Nature 5 

Round Games 13 

Scientific Works 15 

Scott's Poems . . . . . . 6, 21, 27 

Seymour's New Readings .... 18 

Shadows 13 

Shakspeare Heroines 3 

Sharpe's Diamond Dictionary . . 16 

Railway Road Book ... 20 

Sidney Grey 24 

Smith's (Alex.) Poems 12 

— Sonnets on the War 12 
11 
11 



- (Albert) Mont Blanc 

Constantinople . . 

- Christopher Tadpole 



Southey's Life of Nelson 
Spring's Glory of Christ . . . 
Stuart's Antiquities of Athens . 

Tale of a Tiger 

Tayler s (C. B.) May You Like It 
Taylor's Young Islanders . . . 
Thomson's Seasons . . . . 5, 21, 28 

'limbs' Curiosities of London ... 18 

Things Not Generally Known 18 

Curiosities of History ... 18 

Popular Errors 18 

Tom Thumb's Alphabet 27 

Tschudi's Travels in Peru .... 11 

Turner and his Works 2 

Vaticano(Il) 30 

Vestiges of Old London .... 4 

Walton's Angler 6, 27 

Waverley Gallery 4 

Webster's Quarto Dictionary . . 16 

Octavo Dictionary . . 16 

Smaller Dictionaries . . 16 



Whist, Game of 14 

Winkles's Cathedrals 8 

Women of the Bible ...... 4 

Wonders of Travel 11 

Year Book of Facts 15 

Young Lady's Oracle 14 



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